Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 78
My safe conduct is so well assured that whosoe'er should wrong my guest it should cost him his life and all that he had, had he not more than good fortune!
Who acts: whosoe'er, conduct, My · What happens: assure, wrong, cost, have, conduct · To what, where: safe conduct, guest, life, all
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 (whosoe'er, conduct, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 2 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 conduct | amod |
| 3 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 assured | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 assured | aux:pass |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 assured | advmod |
| 7 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 wrong | mark |
| 9 | whosoe'er | whosoe'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrong | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 wrong | aux |
| 11 | wrong | wrong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 assured | advcl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 guest | nmod:poss |
| 13 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrong | obj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cost | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 cost | aux |
| 16 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 assured | ccomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cost | iobj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cost | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 all | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 cost | iobj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 had | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cost | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 had | conj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 more | nsubj |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 more | advmod |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 had | advmod |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 fortune | case |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 fortune | amod |
| 32 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 more | obl |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | present · passive | My safe conduct | well property | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wrong | should | whosoe'er | my guest | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cost | should | conduct | guest's life | all | guest iobj | tree rules | ||
| 4 | have | past | whosoe'er | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have | past | whosoe'er not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | conduct | My | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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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