Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 95
Ye will find me not so craven this day as to let ye harm her; I shall defend her and avenge her wrong if my life be risked upon it.
Who acts: Ye, I · What happens: not find, let, harm, defend, avenge, risk · To what, where: me, ye, maiden, wrong, life · 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 (Ye, I), 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 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 find | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 day | advmod |
| 7 | craven | craven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | compound |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 let | mark |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 let | mark |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 find | ccomp |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 harm | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 defend | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 defend | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 defend | aux |
| 19 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 find | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 defend | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 avenge | cc |
| 22 | avenge | avenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 defend | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wrong | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 avenge | obj |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 risked | mark |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 life | nmod:poss |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 risked | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 risked | aux:pass |
| 29 | risked | risk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 avenge | advcl |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 risked | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | future | Ye | me | day | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | ye | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | harm | infinitive | ye not said here | maiden | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | defend | shall | I | maiden | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | avenge | present | I not said here | maiden's wrong | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | risk a condition, not said to happen | infinitive · passive | my life | upon meddler | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
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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