Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 97
But that evil knight answered and said he would in no wise do this: "An ye get not hence, and fly, by heaven it shall be your doomsday!
Who acts: evil knight, wise, An, heaven · What happens: answer, say, do, not get, fly, be · To what, where: this, doomsday · 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 (evil knight, wise, An, heaven), 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 | _ | 5 answered | cc |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 knight | det |
| 3 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knight | amod |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 would | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 wise | det |
| 12 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 would | advcl |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 17 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 get | nsubj |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 get | nsubj |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | conj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 get | advmod |
| 21 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fly | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fly | cc |
| 24 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 get | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 doomsday | punct |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 heaven | case |
| 27 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 doomsday | obl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 doomsday | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 doomsday | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 doomsday | cop |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 doomsday | nmod:poss |
| 32 | doomsday | doomsday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fly | obl |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: express | past | that evil knight | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | that evil knight not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | present | no wise | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not get in a quote | infinitive | An | ye nsubj; hence property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | fly in a quote | infinitive | An not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | shall | heaven | your doomsday | by heaven; your nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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