Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 7
I know so good counsel withal that I may speedily be ware of him who hath wrought this deed."
Who acts: I, ware · What happens: know, be, have · To what, where: ware, deed
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, ware), 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 | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 withal | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 counsel | amod |
| 5 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 withal | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | withal | withal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 know | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 ware | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 ware | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ware | aux |
| 10 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 12 ware | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ware | cop |
| 12 | ware | ware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 withal | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ware | nmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 hath | nsubj |
| 16 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ware | parataxis |
| 17 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hath | xcomp |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 deed | det |
| 19 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hath | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | may | I | ware | of guest; speedily property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present | ware | this deed | wrought property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Patient |
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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