Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 14
Doth the dead man cease to bleed, then shall we all be well-assured that he hath done the deed; and thereafter shall I take counsel how I may avenge my son, fittingly, and without shame."
Who acts: guest, deed, I · What happens: do, bleed, assure, have, take, avenge · To what, where: dead man cease, we, deed, counsel, son
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 (guest, deed, 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 | Doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cease | det |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cease | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cease | compound |
| 5 | cease | cease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Doth | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bleed | mark |
| 7 | bleed | bleed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cease | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Doth | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 assured | advmod |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 assured | aux |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 assured | nsubj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 assured | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 assured | aux:pass |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 assured | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 well | punct |
| 16 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Doth | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 hath | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hath | nsubj |
| 19 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 assured | ccomp |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hath | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 deed | det |
| 22 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hath | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 take | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 take | cc |
| 25 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 28 take | advmod |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 take | aux |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 take | nsubj |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Doth | conj |
| 29 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obj |
| 30 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 avenge | advmod |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 avenge | nsubj |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 avenge | aux |
| 33 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 take | csubj |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 son | nmod:poss |
| 35 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 avenge | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fittingly | punct |
| 37 | fittingly | fittingly | ADV | _ | 33 avenge | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 shame | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 shame | cc |
| 40 | without | without | ADP | _ | 41 shame | case |
| 41 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Doth | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Doth | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Doth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the dead man cease | without shame | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cease=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bleed | to-infinitive | the dead man cease not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 3 | assure | shall · passive | we | then | well property | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | have | present | guest | the deed | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | participle | the deed not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | take | shall | I | counsel | thereafter property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 7 | avenge | may | I | my son | fittingly 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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