Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 100
I fear me 'twas by his own deed, for well I know that he was fierce of heart, and spared neither foe nor friend.
Who acts: I, heart · What happens: fear, know, be, spare · To what, where: me, foe · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, heart), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fear | nsubj |
| 2 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fear | obj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 fear | punct |
| 5 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fear | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 deed | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 deed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deed | amod |
| 9 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fear | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 well | case |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 know | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fear | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 fierce | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fierce | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fierce | cop |
| 18 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 know | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fierce | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spared | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 spared | cc |
| 23 | spared | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | conj |
| 24 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 foe | det |
| 25 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spared | obj |
| 26 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 friend | cc |
| 27 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 foe | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | I | me | by heart's own deed; twas obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | heart | of heart; fierce property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spare | past | I not said here | neither foe nor friend | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent foe=Asset |
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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