Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 58
He ware a hauberk that bold overstrong hero, wherewith he was none too heavy laden, yet none might harm him with any weapon they brought thither.
Who acts: Sir, that, none, blows · What happens: ware, hero, be, lade, harm, bring · To what, where: hauberk, none, Sir, weapon
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 (Sir, that, none, blows), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ware | nsubj |
| 2 | ware | ware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hauberk | det |
| 4 | hauberk | hauberk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ware | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 hero | nsubj |
| 6 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hero | amod |
| 7 | overstrong | overstrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hero | amod |
| 8 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hauberk | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 none | punct |
| 10 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 none | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 none | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 none | cop |
| 13 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 8 hero | conj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 heavy | advmod |
| 15 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 none | amod |
| 16 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 heavy | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 harm | punct |
| 18 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 21 harm | cc |
| 19 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 21 harm | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 harm | aux |
| 21 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hero | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 harm | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 weapon | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 weapon | det |
| 25 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 harm | obl |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 brought | nsubj |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 weapon | acl:relcl |
| 28 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 27 brought | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ware | infinitive | Sir | a hauberk | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hero | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | Sir | none | wherewith property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lade | participle | Sir not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | harm | might | none | Sir | with any weapon | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | bring | past | blows = blow | any weapon not said here | thither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme |
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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