Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 43
Then said Sir Lancelot: "I ween that 'tis the most pressing need to go fight against the beast whereof the good man telleth us; methinks 'twere well that I ride thither."
Who acts: Lancelot, good man, methinks · What happens: say, ween, ti, press, need, go · To what, where: fight, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lancelot, good man, methinks), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Lancelot | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 ween | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ween | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ween | nsubj |
| 8 | ween | ween | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 tis | mark |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 tis | punct |
| 11 | tis | ti | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ween | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 need | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 pressing | advmod |
| 14 | pressing | press | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 the | advcl |
| 15 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tis | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 need | xcomp |
| 18 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obj |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 beast | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 beast | det |
| 21 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 22 | whereof | whereof | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 telleth | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 telleth | nsubj |
| 26 | telleth | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | advcl |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 telleth | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 methinks | punct |
| 29 | methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 ride | nsubj |
| 30 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 29 methinks | case |
| 31 | twere | twere | ADV | _ | 35 ride | advmod |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 ride | advmod |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 ride | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 ride | nsubj |
| 35 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 36 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 35 ride | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Lancelot Sir | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ween in a quote | present | Lancelot Sir = lancelot | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ti in a quote | present | Lancelot Sir = lancelot not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | press in a quote | gerund | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | need in a quote | present | Lancelot Sir = lancelot not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Lancelot Sir = lancelot not said here | fight | against the beast | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fight=Theme | |||
| 7 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | the good man | us | whereof property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | |||
| 8 | ride in a quote | present | methinks | I nsubj; thither, twere, well property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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