Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 17
The knight would not hearken, and the maiden spake: "Noble knight I will tell ye wherefore he doeth me this wrong.
Who acts: knight, I · What happens: not hearken, tell, do · To what, where: maiden spake, Noble knight, ye, me · 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 (knight, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hearken | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hearken | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hearken | advmod |
| 5 | hearken | hearken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spake | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spake | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spake | det |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spake | amod |
| 10 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hearken | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 knight | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 knight | punct |
| 13 | Noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knight | amod |
| 14 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spake | appos |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 knight | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 doeth | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 doeth | nsubj |
| 21 | doeth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | ccomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 doeth | obj |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 wrong | nsubj |
| 24 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 doeth | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hearken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hearken | would | the knight | the maiden spake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | I | Noble knight not said here | ye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | knight | me | wherefore property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
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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