Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 78
They who are fain to despise counsel ofttimes do so to their own mischief.
Who acts: ways · What happens: be, despise, do · To what, where: counsel ofttimes
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 (ways), 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 fain | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 fain | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fain | cop |
| 4 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 despise | mark |
| 6 | despise | despise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fain | csubj |
| 7 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ofttimes | compound |
| 8 | ofttimes | ofttime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 despise | obj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fain | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 mischief | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 mischief | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mischief | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mischief | amod |
| 14 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ways = way | who nsubj; fain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | despise | to-infinitive | counsel ofttimes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ofttime=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | present | ways = way not said here | to ways's own mischief | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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