Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 89

Did there come hither any friend of God who would help me in this my need, an he had slain his own father it should be forgiven him!"

Who acts: friend, need, my · What happens: come, help, slay, forgive, need · To what, where: me, need, an, wrong

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 (friend, need, my), 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hither	hither	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 help	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 God	case
8	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 friend	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 help	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 help	aux
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	parataxis
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 help	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 need	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 need	det
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 need	nmod:poss
16	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 help	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 slain	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 slain	nsubj:pass
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 slain	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 slain	aux
21	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 forgiven	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 father	amod
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slain	obj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 forgiven	nsubj:pass
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 forgiven	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 forgiven	aux:pass
28	forgiven	forgive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 need	acl:relcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 forgiven	obj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support				there	hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help	would	any friend of God		me	my need	who nsubj	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
3	slay	past · perfect · passive		an			knight nsubj; knight's own father obj	tree rules
4	forgive	should · passive	my need not said here	wrong			knight obj	tree rules
5	need		my					nom need «state transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 89

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 89