Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 10
I shall avenge him more discreetly, if I be well-assured of the truth that my guest hath indeed wrought this murder and this great outrage."
Who acts: I · What happens: avenge, assure, wrought · To what, where: wise, I, guest
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 avenge | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 avenge | aux |
| 3 | avenge | avenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 avenge | obj |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 discreetly | advmod |
| 6 | discreetly | discreetly | ADV | _ | 3 avenge | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 assured | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 assured | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 assured | nsubj |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 assured | aux:pass |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 assured | advmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 well | punct |
| 13 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 avenge | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 truth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 truth | det |
| 16 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assured | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 wrought | obj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 guest | nmod:poss |
| 19 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wrought | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wrought | aux |
| 21 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 22 wrought | advmod |
| 22 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 truth | acl:relcl |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 murder | det |
| 24 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wrought | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 outrage | cc |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 outrage | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 outrage | amod |
| 28 | outrage | outrage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 murder | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 avenge | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 avenge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avenge | shall | I | wise | discreetly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | assure a condition, not said to happen | infinitive · passive | I | of the truth; well property | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of truth=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wrought | present · perfect · passive | my guest | the truth obj; this murder and this great outrage obj; indeed property | tree rules |
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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