Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 5
But by the faith that I owe to God and Our Lady, and the honour of knighthood, it shall avail them naught that they thus refuse me; I shall turn again from here, and otherwise take my way; may I but find on shore one of those who were there, and who belongeth to the ships, in sooth he were born in an evil hour!
Who acts: I, honour, God, sooth · What happens: owe, avail, refuse, turn, take, find · To what, where: that, God, me, way, shore, sooth
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, honour, God, sooth), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 owe | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 faith | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 faith | det |
| 4 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 owe | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 owe | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 owe | nsubj |
| 7 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 God | case |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 owe | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Lady | cc |
| 11 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Lady | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 God | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 avail | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 avail | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 honour | det |
| 16 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 avail | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 knighthood | case |
| 18 | knighthood | knighthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 honour | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 honour | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 avail | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 avail | aux |
| 22 | avail | avail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 owe | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 avail | obj |
| 24 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 22 avail | obj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 refuse | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 refuse | nsubj |
| 27 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 28 refuse | advmod |
| 28 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 naught | acl |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 refuse | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 turn | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 turn | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 turn | aux |
| 33 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 avail | parataxis |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 turn | advmod |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 here | case |
| 36 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 turn | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 take | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 take | cc |
| 39 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 40 take | advmod |
| 40 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 turn | conj |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 way | nmod:poss |
| 42 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 take | obj |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 find | punct |
| 44 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 find | aux |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 find | nsubj |
| 46 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 find | cc |
| 47 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 owe | parataxis |
| 48 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 shore | case |
| 49 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 find | obl |
| 50 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 shore | flat |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 those | case |
| 52 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 50 one | nmod |
| 53 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 55 there | nsubj |
| 54 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 there | cop |
| 55 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 52 those | acl:relcl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 belongeth | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 belongeth | cc |
| 58 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 59 belongeth | nsubj |
| 59 | belongeth | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 find | conj |
| 60 | to | to | ADP | _ | 62 ships | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 ships | det |
| 62 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 belongeth | obl |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 sooth | punct |
| 64 | in | in | ADP | _ | 65 sooth | case |
| 65 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 belongeth | obl |
| 66 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 68 born | nsubj:pass |
| 67 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 68 born | aux:pass |
| 68 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 65 sooth | acl:relcl |
| 69 | in | in | ADP | _ | 72 hour | case |
| 70 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 72 hour | det |
| 71 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 72 hour | amod |
| 72 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 born | obl |
| 73 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 owe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | present | I | that | God and Our Lady | by the faith | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent that=Theme to god=Goal | ||
| 2 | avail | shall | the honour of knighthood | God | naught obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | refuse | present | God | me | thus property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | turn | shall | I | again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from here=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | I not said here | my way | otherwise property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 6 | find | may | I | shore | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | past | who nsubj; there property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | belong | present | sooth | to the ships; who nsubj | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | bear | past · passive | sooth not said here | One | hour | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 10 | honour | knighthood | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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