Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 15
But hath the maiden not deserved this, then hold your hand, and make peace with me, otherwise is your life forfeit were ye never so highly born.
What happens: have, not deserve, hold, make, be, not bear · To what, where: this, hand, peace, life forfeit
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: 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 | _ | 2 hath | cc |
| 2 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hath | xcomp |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 deserved | advmod |
| 6 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 maiden | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 deserved | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hold | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 hold | advmod |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 hath | parataxis |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 hold | conj |
| 16 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forfeit | punct |
| 20 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 24 forfeit | advmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 forfeit | cop |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 forfeit | nmod:poss |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forfeit | compound |
| 24 | forfeit | forfeit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 born | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 born | aux:pass |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 born | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 born | advmod |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 born | advmod |
| 29 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 30 born | advmod |
| 30 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hold | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | maiden property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not deserve | participle | this | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | your hand | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | peace | with me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | your life forfeit | your nmod:poss; otherwise property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not bear | past · passive | your life forfeit | ye nsubj:pass; highly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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