Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 61
They who might escape death fared little better, for good fortune had departed from them--thus many chose their end.
Who acts: arm, death, many · What happens: escape, fare, depart, choose · To what, where: good fortune, end
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 (arm, death, many), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 escape | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 escape | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 escape | aux |
| 4 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fared | nsubj |
| 6 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 escape | ccomp |
| 7 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 better | advmod |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 fared | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 departed | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 departed | mark |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fortune | amod |
| 12 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 departed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 departed | aux |
| 14 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 escape | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 departed | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 chose | punct |
| 18 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 19 many | advmod |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chose | nsubj |
| 20 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 escape | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 end | nmod:poss |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chose | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | might | arm | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fare | past | death | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | depart | past · perfect · passive | good fortune | from arm | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | choose | past | many | arm's end | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=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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