Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 24
Know ye if any within these few days past have carried a knight over the water?"
Who acts: you · What happens: know, carry · To what, where: ye, few days, water
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 (you), 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 | Know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Know | obj |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 any | mark |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 Know | obl |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 11 carried | mark |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 days | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | past | past | PART | _ | 11 carried | mark |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 carried | aux |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Know | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 knight | det |
| 13 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Know | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | imperative | you not said here | ye | any obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ye=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | carry | infinitive · perfect · passive | this few days | the water | a knight obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary knight=Value |
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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