Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 4
There lived on earth no man so wise that he might aid him in this stress, nor leech who might heal him; yet, an God will, he shall be healed of his smart and of his shame.
Who acts: man, Sir · What happens: live, aid, leech, heal, shame · To what, where: earth, Sir, stress, God
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 (man, Sir), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 lived | expl |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 earth | case |
| 4 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wise | nsubj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 wise | advmod |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lived | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 aid | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 aid | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 aid | aux |
| 12 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wise | csubj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 aid | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 stress | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 stress | det |
| 16 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 aid | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leech | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 leech | cc |
| 19 | leech | leech | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 aid | conj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 heal | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 heal | aux |
| 22 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 leech | ccomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heal | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
| 25 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 2 lived | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 God | punct |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 God | det |
| 28 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 healed | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 healed | aux |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 will | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 healed | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 healed | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 healed | aux:pass |
| 34 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 smart | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 smart | nmod:poss |
| 37 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 healed | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 shame | cc |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 shame | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 shame | nmod:poss |
| 41 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 smart | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | earth; there | yet | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location | ||||
| 2 | aid | might | man | Sir | this stress | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | leech | infinitive | man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | heal | might | Sir | who nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | heal | shall · future · passive | a God | of Sir's smart and Sir's shame; Sir nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | shame | Sir | nom shame «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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