Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 75
And the host spake, "So may good befall me in soul and body as I shall give to you in friendship, even to the uttermost, all that belongeth unto this even; lodging will I give ye, and food, ham and venison.
Who acts: host spake, lord, that · What happens: befall, give, belong, lodge · To what, where: lord, soul, uttermost, you, friendship, food
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 (host spake, lord, that), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 befall | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spake | det |
| 3 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spake | compound |
| 4 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 befall | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spake | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
| 7 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 good | advmod |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 good | aux |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 befall | advcl |
| 10 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 befall | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 soul | case |
| 13 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 befall | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 body | cc |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soul | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 befall | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 give | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 friendship | case |
| 23 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 uttermost | punct |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 uttermost | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 uttermost | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 uttermost | det |
| 28 | uttermost | uttermost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 belongeth | punct |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 belongeth | det:predet |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 belongeth | nsubj |
| 32 | belongeth | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 uttermost | conj |
| 33 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 34 this | case |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 belongeth | obl |
| 35 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 give | advmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 give | punct |
| 37 | lodging | lodge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 give | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 give | aux |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 give | nsubj |
| 40 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 befall | conj |
| 41 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 give | iobj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 food | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 food | cc |
| 44 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 give | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 ham | punct |
| 46 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 food | conj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 venison | cc |
| 48 | venison | venison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 food | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 befall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall in a quote | infinitive | the host spake | the lord = lord | soul and body | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | shall | the lord = lord | the uttermost | you | friendship | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent uttermost=Theme to you=Recipient | ||
| 3 | belong in a quote | present | that | unto this | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lodge in a quote | gerund | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | give in a quote | future | food and ham and venison | ye | I nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient food=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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