Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 47
May God who hath power over us all strengthen ye well; would that He might here show forth His power!"
Who acts: God, us · What happens: have, strengthen, show · To what, where: power, ye
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 (God, us), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 God | aux |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hath | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 hath | nsubj |
| 4 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hath | obj |
| 6 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 9 strengthen | mark |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 strengthen | nsubj |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 strengthen | advmod |
| 9 | strengthen | strengthen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hath | advcl |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 strengthen | obj |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 strengthen | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | aux |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 show | mark |
| 15 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 show | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | aux |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 show | advmod |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hath | parataxis |
| 19 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 18 show | advmod |
| 20 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 power | nmod:poss |
| 21 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | God | power | who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | |||
| 2 | strengthen | present | us | ye | all, well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ye=Patient | |||
| 3 | show | might | God | God's power | here | forth property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent power=Recipient |
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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