Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 39
He was bare of arms, and had he revealed himself and demanded his weapons they had scarce given them to him; rather had they slain him, and drawn blood-guiltiness upon themselves had not God protected him.
Who acts: Sir, weapons, God · What happens: be, have, reveal, demand, scarce, give · To what, where: Sir, weapons, blood guiltiness · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sir, weapons, God), 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 | 3 bare | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bare | cop |
| 3 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 arms | case |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bare | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bare | parataxis |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 revealed | nsubj |
| 10 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | ccomp |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 revealed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 demanded | cc |
| 13 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 revealed | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 15 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 demanded | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 scarce | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 scarce | aux |
| 18 | scarce | scarce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 demanded | ccomp |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 scarce | xcomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 given | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 given | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 24 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 25 had | advmod |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bare | parataxis |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 slain | nsubj |
| 27 | slain | slain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 had | ccomp |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 slain | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 drawn | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 drawn | cc |
| 31 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 had | parataxis |
| 32 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 guiltiness | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 blood | punct |
| 34 | guiltiness | guiltiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drawn | obj |
| 35 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 themselves | case |
| 36 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 drawn | obl |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 drawn | conj |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 protected | advmod |
| 39 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 protected | nsubj |
| 40 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 had | advcl |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 protected | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sir | of arms; bare property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | reveal | past | Sir | Sir | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | past | Sir not said here | Sir's weapons | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | scarce | past · perfect | weapons = weapon | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | give | participle | weapons = weapon not said here | weapons = weapon | Sir | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 7 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | slain | present | weapons = weapon | Sir | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | draw | participle | blood guiltiness | upon weapons = weapon | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guiltiness=Theme | ||||
| 10 | have | past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 11 | not protect | past | God | Sir | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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