Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 104

Man may scarce tell all the mischief wrought by that stranger knight who slew your son, the best knight on earth; nor may we tell who he might be."

Who acts: Man, stranger knight, we · What happens: tell, slay, be · To what, where: mischief, son · 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 (Man, stranger knight, we), 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	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tell	advcl
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 mischief	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mischief	det
7	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	wrought	wrought	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mischief	amod
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 knight	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 knight	det
11	stranger	strange	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 knight	amod
12	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 slew	nsubj
14	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 knight	acl:relcl
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 son	nmod:poss
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slew	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knight	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 knight	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 knight	amod
20	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 son	appos
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 earth	case
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 knight	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	27 tell	cc
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	aux
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tell	nsubj
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 be	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 be	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 be	aux
31	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tell	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	may	Man	all mischief	by that stranger knight	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mischief=Recipient
2	slay	past	that stranger knight	your son		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	may	we			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be	might			who nsubj; knight nsubj	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 5, sentence 104

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 104