Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 27
He hath left his folk behind that they may hinder my friends, lest they follow him to his hurt.
Who acts: knight, sorrows · What happens: have, leave, hinder, follow, hurt · To what, where: folk, friends, knight, hurt
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, sorrows), 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 hath | nsubj |
| 2 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hath | ccomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 folk | nmod:poss |
| 5 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 hinder | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 hinder | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hinder | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hinder | aux |
| 10 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 left | advcl |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friends | nmod:poss |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hinder | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 follow | punct |
| 14 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 16 follow | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 follow | nsubj |
| 16 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hath | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 follow | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 hurt | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hurt | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 follow | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | knight | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | knight not said here | knight's folk | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hinder | may | sorrows = sorrow | my friends | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer friend=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | follow | present | sorrows = sorrow | knight | knight's hurt | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hurt=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | hurt | knight | nom hurt «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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