Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 71
He hath made his boast that he will win all Arthur's land, hill and vale, castle and town (this is his intent), and bring all under his hand ere he quit our land.
Who acts: town, this · What happens: have, make, win, be, bring, quit · To what, where: boast, land, intent, hand ere
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 (town, this), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hath | nsubj |
| 2 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hath | ccomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 boast | nmod:poss |
| 5 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 win | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 win | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 win | aux |
| 9 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | advcl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 Arthur | det |
| 11 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 land | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Arthur | case |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 win | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hill | punct |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 land | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 vale | cc |
| 17 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 land | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 castle | punct |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 land | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 town | cc |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 land | conj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 intent | punct |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 intent | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 intent | cop |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 intent | nmod:poss |
| 26 | intent | intent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 town | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 intent | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bring | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bring | cc |
| 30 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hath | conj |
| 31 | all | all | ADV | _ | 35 ere | advmod |
| 32 | under | under | ADP | _ | 35 ere | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 ere | nmod:poss |
| 34 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ere | compound |
| 35 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bring | obj |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 quit | nsubj |
| 37 | quit | quit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 ere | acl:relcl |
| 38 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 land | nmod:poss |
| 39 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 quit | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | town | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past | town not said here | town's boast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boast=Product | ||||
| 3 | win | future | town | all Arthur's land and hill and vale and castle and town | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | this | town's intent | town nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | town not said here | town's hand ere | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ere=Theme | ||||
| 6 | quit | past | town | our land | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Source | ||||
| 7 | boast | town | nom boast «communication intransitive»: 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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