Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 96
But, Sir Knight, hearken to my prayer, for God and for your honour, and the sake of knighthood!"
Who acts: Knight, my, your · What happens: hearken, pray, honour · To what, where: sake
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 (Knight, my, your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 hearken | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Knight | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hearken | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Knight | punct |
| 6 | hearken | hearken | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 prayer | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 9 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hearken | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 God | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 God | case |
| 12 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hearken | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 honour | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 honour | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 honour | nmod:poss |
| 16 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 God | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sake | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sake | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sake | det |
| 20 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hearken | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 knighthood | case |
| 22 | knighthood | knighthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sake | nmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 sake | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hearken | infinitive | Knight Sir | the sake of knighthood | to my prayer; God and your honour parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pray | my | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | honour | your | nom honour «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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