Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 81
If I still dwell here 'tis that I have no need to flee nor to fear death ere my day come, when as it hath been foretold and declared I shall break the rule of my order.
Who acts: I, order, my · What happens: dwell, have, flee, fear, come, foretell · To what, where: tis, death, rule · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, order, my), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 dwell | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dwell | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 dwell | advmod |
| 4 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dwell | advmod |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 tis | punct |
| 7 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dwell | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 have | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tis | acl:relcl |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 need | det |
| 12 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 flee | mark |
| 14 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 need | acl |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 fear | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fear | mark |
| 17 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 flee | conj |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fear | obj |
| 19 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 17 fear | advmod |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 day | nmod:poss |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fear | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fear | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 foretold | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 foretold | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 foretold | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 foretold | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 foretold | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 foretold | aux:pass |
| 29 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 come | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 declared | cc |
| 31 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 foretold | conj |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 break | nsubj |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 break | aux |
| 34 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 declared | ccomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rule | det |
| 36 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 break | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 order | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 order | nmod:poss |
| 39 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rule | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present | I | tis | here | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | have | present | I | tis | no need obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | flee | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fear | to-infinitive | I not said here | death | day | ere property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | come | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | foretell | present · perfect · passive | death | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | declare speech: other | participle | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | break | shall | I | the rule of my order | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient | ||||
| 9 | rule | my order | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 10 | order | my | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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