Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 16
Little good might his asking do him, since none who might walk or ride would abide his coming.
Who acts: Morien, none · What happens: ask, do, walk, ride, abide, come · To what, where: Morien · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morien, none), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 good | amod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 asking | amod |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 asking | aux |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 asking | nsubj |
| 5 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 asking | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 none | punct |
| 9 | since | since | ADP | _ | 10 none | case |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 abide | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 walk | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 walk | aux |
| 13 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 none | acl:relcl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 ride | cc |
| 15 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 walk | conj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 abide | aux |
| 17 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asking | ccomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 coming | nsubj |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 abide | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | might | Morien | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | present | Morien not said here | Morien | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | walk | might | who nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ride | infinitive | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | abide | would | none | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | gerund | Morien | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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