Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 34
I may not do better than return to the Hermit, that good man, there where I parted from my comrades."
Who acts: I · What happens: not do, part
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 return | case |
| 7 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Hermit | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hermit | det |
| 10 | Hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 return | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 man | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 return | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 parted | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 parted | expl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 parted | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 parted | nsubj |
| 19 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 comrades | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 22 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 parted | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | may | I | than return to the Hermit and that good man; well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | part | past | I | there | from my comrades | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from comrade=Co-Patient |
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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