Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 25
He who will keep his horse, his weapons and his life will shun that road.
Who acts: man, life · What happens: keep, shun · To what, where: horse, road
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 weapons | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 9 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shun | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shun | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 shun | aux |
| 14 | shun | shun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 keep | conj |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shun | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | future | man | man's horse | man's weapons obl; who nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | shun | future | man's life | that road | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent road=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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