Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 6
An he carry me not over the water I will thrust him through with my spear, or deal him such a stroke with my sword, that he shall fall dead upon the earth.
Who acts: One, I · What happens: not carry, thrust, deal, fall · To what, where: me, One, water, stroke, earth
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 (One, I), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 carry | det |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 carry | obj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 carry | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thrust | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 thrust | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 thrust | aux |
| 11 | thrust | thrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 carry | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thrust | obj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 spear | case |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 spear | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 spear | nmod:poss |
| 16 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thrust | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 deal | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 deal | cc |
| 19 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thrust | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 deal | obj |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 stroke | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 stroke | det |
| 23 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deal | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 sword | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sword | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deal | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fall | punct |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 fall | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fall | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 fall | aux |
| 31 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 deal | parataxis |
| 32 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fall | xcomp |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 35 earth | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 earth | det |
| 35 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fall | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not carry | infinitive | One | me | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thrust | future | I | One | the water | through my spear | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 3 | deal | infinitive | I not said here | such stroke | One | with my sword | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stroke=Theme | ||
| 4 | fall | shall | One | the earth | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location |
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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