Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 44
And the hermit answered: "Alas, Sir Knight, ye be so fair that I deem below the throne one might scarce find your equal, and will ye brave a venture which no man may achieve!
Who acts: hermit, ye, throne one, man · What happens: answer, be, deem, scarce, find, achieve · To what, where: Alas, equal, venture · 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 (hermit, ye, throne one, man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hermit | det |
| 3 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Alas | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Alas | punct |
| 7 | Alas | Alas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Knight | punct |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Knight | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Alas | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fair | punct |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 fair | nsubj |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fair | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 fair | advmod |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Alas | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 deem | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 deem | nsubj |
| 18 | deem | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fair | advcl |
| 19 | below | below | ADP | _ | 24 scarce | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 21 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 one | compound |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 scarce | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 scarce | aux |
| 24 | scarce | scarce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 deem | ccomp |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 scarce | xcomp |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 equal | nmod:poss |
| 27 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 find | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 brave | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 brave | cc |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 brave | aux |
| 31 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 brave | nsubj |
| 32 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 answered | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 venture | det |
| 34 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 brave | nsubj |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 achieve | obj |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 man | det |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 achieve | nsubj |
| 38 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 achieve | aux |
| 39 | achieve | achieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 venture | acl:relcl |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: express | past | the hermit | Alas and Knight Sir | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent alas=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | ye | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deem in a quote | present | the hermit = hermit | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | scarce in a quote | might | the throne one | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find in a quote | infinitive | the throne one not said here | your equal | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equal=Topic | ||||
| 6 | achieve in a quote | may | no man | a venture | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
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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