Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 25
He took me thence by force, ere I was well aware, nor stayed his hand for God or man.
Who acts: knight, I · What happens: take, be, stay · To what, where: me, ere, hand
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 took | iobj |
| 4 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 force | case |
| 6 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ere | punct |
| 8 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 force | appos |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 aware | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 aware | cop |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 aware | advmod |
| 12 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ere | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stayed | punct |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 stayed | cc |
| 15 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stayed | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 God | case |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 stayed | obl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 man | cc |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 God | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | knight | me | by force; thence property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | I | ere not said here | aware, well property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stay | past | knight not said here | knight's hand | for God or man | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hand=Location |
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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