Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 92
He drew forth from its sheath the sword, which was little worth to him, and deemed he would defend himself, as he oft had done aforetime, against those who would harm him.
Who acts: Sir, sword · What happens: draw, be, deem, defend, do, harm · To what, where: Sir
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, sword), 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 | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 drew | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 sheath | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sheath | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sheath | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 worth | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 worth | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 worth | cop |
| 12 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 worth | advmod |
| 13 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sword | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 worth | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 deemed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 deemed | cc |
| 18 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 defend | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 defend | aux |
| 21 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 deemed | ccomp |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 defend | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 done | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 oft | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 oft | nsubj |
| 26 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 done | advcl |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 done | aux |
| 28 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 defend | parataxis |
| 29 | aforetime | aforetime | ADV | _ | 28 done | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 those | punct |
| 31 | against | against | ADP | _ | 32 those | case |
| 32 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 done | obl |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 harm | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 harm | aux |
| 35 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 those | acl:relcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 harm | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Sir | from traitor's sheath; forth property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from sheath=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the sword | Sir | little, worth property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | deem | past | Sir not said here | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | defend | would | Sir | Sir | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect | against those; aforetime property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | harm | would | Sir | who nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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