Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 77
He hath safe conduct, good and sure, against all whom he may meet in this land, were it against mine own son, whom I love above all who own the laws of knighthood.
Who acts: ne'er, all, I · What happens: have, meet, be, love, own · To what, where: safe conduct, land, all, laws
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 (ne'er, all, I), 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 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 conduct | amod |
| 4 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hath | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 conduct | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sure | cc |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 good | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 it | nsubj |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 meet | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 meet | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 meet | aux |
| 15 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 all | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meet | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 it | cop |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hath | ccomp |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 son | case |
| 23 | mine | mine | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 son | amod |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hath | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 whom | punct |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 son | appos |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 love | nsubj |
| 29 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 whom | acl:relcl |
| 30 | above | above | ADP | _ | 31 all | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 love | obj |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 own | nsubj |
| 33 | own | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 all | acl:relcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 laws | det |
| 35 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 own | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 knighthood | case |
| 37 | knighthood | knighthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 laws | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | ne'er | safe conduct | against mine own son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Patient | |||
| 2 | meet | may | ne'er | this land | whom obj | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | past | all | land | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | present | I | all | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | own | present | the laws of knighthood | who nsubj | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot law=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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