Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 8
Then he called together his folk to one side of the hall, and said that his oath and his safe conduct might in no wise be broken, for his son were thereby but ill-avenged, valiant knight though he was.
Who acts: ware · What happens: call together, say, break, be, avenge, conduct · To what, where: folk, one side, wise · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 folk | nmod:poss |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 side | nummod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hall | det |
| 12 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 might | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 oath | nmod:poss |
| 18 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 might | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 conduct | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 21 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 conduct | amod |
| 22 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 oath | conj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 no | case |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 might | obl |
| 26 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 broken | aux:pass |
| 28 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 no | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 thereby | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 son | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 son | nmod:poss |
| 32 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 thereby | obl |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 thereby | cop |
| 34 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 28 broken | advmod |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 knight | cc |
| 36 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 avenged | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 ill | punct |
| 38 | avenged | avenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 knight | amod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 knight | punct |
| 40 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 knight | amod |
| 41 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 thereby | conj |
| 42 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 44 was | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 was | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 knight | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call together speech: assert | past | ware | ware's folk | one side of the hall | then | together property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to side=Recipient | |
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | ware not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | break | infinitive · passive | wise | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | past | for ware's son; avenged valiant knight conj; thereby property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | avenge | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | be | past | ware | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | conduct | ware | 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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