Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 49
Do what he might with that sword it suffered neither dint nor scar; he smote straight to the mid-ward; nor was their harness so good that it might withstand him.
Who acts: sword, beset · What happens: do, suffer, smite, be, withstand · To what, where: dint, mid-ward, harness, beset
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 (sword, beset), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Do | obj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 might | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sword | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 sword | det |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 might | obl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 suffered | nsubj |
| 9 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sword | acl:relcl |
| 10 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 dint | det |
| 11 | dint | dint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 suffered | obj |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 scar | cc |
| 13 | scar | scar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dint | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 smote | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 smote | nsubj |
| 16 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | conj |
| 17 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 20 mid-ward | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 mid-ward | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mid-ward | det |
| 20 | mid-ward | mid-ward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 smote | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 harness | punct |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 harness | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 harness | cop |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 harness | nmod:poss |
| 25 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 smote | obl |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 good | advmod |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 harness | amod |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 withstand | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 withstand | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 withstand | aux |
| 31 | withstand | withstand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 good | csubj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 withstand | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | suffer | past | sword | neither dint nor scar | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dint=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | smite | past | beset | the mid-ward | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mid-ward=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | dint's harness | dint nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | withstand | might | sword | beset | tree rules |
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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