Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 51
Methinks ye have suffered harm, and been in such sore strife that 'tis a marvel an ye be healed, and escape with life, ye seem to me in such evil case."
Who acts: such sore strife, ye · What happens: suffer, be, ti, heal, escape, seem · To what, where: Methinks, such sore strife, marvel, ye, 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 (such sore strife, ye), 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 | Methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 suffered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 suffered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 suffered | aux |
| 4 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suffered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 strife | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 strife | cc |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 strife | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 strife | case |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 strife | amod |
| 11 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 strife | amod |
| 12 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suffered | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 tis | nsubj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 tis | punct |
| 15 | tis | ti | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 strife | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 marvel | det |
| 17 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tis | obj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tis | obj |
| 19 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 healed | nsubj |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 healed | aux:pass |
| 21 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 an | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 escape | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 escape | cc |
| 24 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 healed | ccomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 escape | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 seem | punct |
| 28 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 seem | nsubj |
| 29 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 escape | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 me | case |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 seem | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 case | case |
| 33 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 case | amod |
| 34 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 case | amod |
| 35 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seem | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 suffered | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | present · perfect · passive | Methinks | ye nsubj:pass; harm obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | such sore strife | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ti | present | such sore strife | a marvel | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | heal | infinitive · passive | ye | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | escape | infinitive | with life | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | seem | present | ye | me | in such evil case | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in case=Attribute |
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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