Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 9
He might well rue it if he slew his guest, for thereof should he have great shame wherever men told the tale. "
Who acts: wise, men · What happens: rue, slay, have, tell · To what, where: deed, guest, great shame, tale · 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 (wise, men), 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 | 4 rue | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 rue | aux |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 rue | advmod |
| 4 | rue | rue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rue | obj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 slew | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 slew | nsubj |
| 8 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rue | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 guest | nmod:poss |
| 10 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slew | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 13 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 16 have | advmod |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rue | conj |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shame | amod |
| 18 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 told | advmod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 told | nsubj |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tale | det |
| 23 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 told | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rue | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rue | might | wise | deed | well property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | slay a condition, not said to happen | past | wise | wise's guest | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | should | wise | great shame | thereof property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shame=Patient | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | men | the tale | wherever property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
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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