Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 7
Even to day shall ye be repaid by those who follow me, and chastised in such wise as ye would not have for all the riches King Arthur holds or ne'er may hold!
Who acts: those, ye, King Arthur · What happens: repay, follow, chastise, not have, hold · To what, where: ye, me, such wise, riches
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 (those, ye, King Arthur), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 day | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 repaid | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 repaid | aux |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 repaid | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 repaid | aux:pass |
| 7 | repaid | repay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 hold | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 those | case |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 repaid | obl:agent |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 follow | nsubj |
| 11 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 those | acl:relcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 follow | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chastised | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 chastised | cc |
| 15 | chastised | chastise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 repaid | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 wise | case |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wise | amod |
| 18 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 chastised | obl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 have | mark |
| 20 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 have | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 have | advmod |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 chastised | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 riches | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 riches | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 riches | det |
| 27 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 have | obl |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Arthur | compound |
| 29 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 holds | nsubj |
| 30 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 riches | acl:relcl |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 ne'er | cc |
| 32 | ne'er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 riches | conj |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 hold | aux |
| 34 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repay | shall · passive | those | ye | day | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | follow | present | me | who nsubj | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chastise | participle | those not said here | such wise | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not have | would | ye | for all riches or ne'er | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hold | present | King Arthur | all riches or ne'er not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hold | may | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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