Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 72
Of this is the queen sore afraid, and they who be with her, they look not to escape.
Who acts: queen, God · What happens: be, look, not escape
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 (queen, God), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 afraid | obl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 afraid | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 afraid | nsubj |
| 6 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 afraid | amod |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 her | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 her | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 her | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 her | nsubj |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 her | cop |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 afraid | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 look | nsubj |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 afraid | conj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 escape | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 escape | mark |
| 20 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 look | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the queen | of this; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | God | with worst = bad; who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | present | God | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not escape | to-infinitive | God not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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