Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 13
Since that I have heard he rideth not so far ahead I may well overtake him, an my steed, which is so swift, and strong, and good, foil me not!"
Who acts: I, father, steed · What happens: hear, not ride, overtake, be, not foil · To what, where: father, me
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father, steed), 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 5 heard | mark |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 heard | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 overtake | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rideth | nsubj |
| 7 | rideth | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 rideth | advmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 far | advmod |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 ahead | advmod |
| 11 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 7 rideth | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 overtake | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 overtake | aux |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 overtake | advmod |
| 15 | overtake | overtake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 overtake | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 steed | punct |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 steed | det |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 steed | nmod:poss |
| 20 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 overtake | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 swift | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 swift | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 swift | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 swift | advmod |
| 25 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 steed | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 strong | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 strong | cc |
| 28 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 swift | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 good | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 good | cc |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 swift | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 foil | punct |
| 33 | foil | foil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 overtake | conj |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 foil | obj |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 foil | advmod |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 overtake | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 overtake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not ride | present | father | ahead property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | overtake | may | I | father | my steed parataxis; well property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | my steed | swift property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | my steed not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | be | my steed not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | not foil | infinitive | I not said here | me | 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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