Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 34
Will ye right this maiden of the wrong ye have done her, or fight with me?
Who acts: ye, maiden · What happens: right, do, fight · To what, where: horse
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 (ye, maiden), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | aux |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 right | nsubj |
| 3 | right | right | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 maiden | det |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wrong | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wrong | det |
| 8 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maiden | nmod |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 done | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 right | ccomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 done | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fight | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 fight | cc |
| 15 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 right | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fight | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | right | future | ye | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | this maiden of the wrong | horse | ye nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | fight | infinitive | ye not said here | with me | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-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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