Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 37
The knight made answer: "Now do ye hold me over feeble, an ye think I shall thus yield.
Who acts: knight, ye, Dear Knight · What happens: make, hold, think, yield · To what, where: answer, Dear Knight, feeble, knight
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, ye, Dear Knight), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knight | acl |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 hold | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hold | punct |
| 7 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 hold | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hold | aux |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 hold | nsubj |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knight | parataxis |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hold | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 feeble | case |
| 13 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hold | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 think | det |
| 16 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 think | nsubj |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hold | conj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 yield | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 yield | aux |
| 20 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 21 yield | advmod |
| 21 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 think | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | the knight not said here | answer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product | ||||
| 2 | hold in a quote | present · do-support | ye | Dear Knight Sir = knight | feeble | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme over feeble=Location | ||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | ye | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | yield in a quote | shall | Dear Knight Sir = knight | thus property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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