Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 73
Had ye, brother, been in the land, and Perceval, and Lancelot, then had we never come to such a pass, for there liveth no man so bold that he durst withstand ye three in any venture that might chance.
Who acts: Lancelot, we, venture · What happens: have, be, not come, live, withstand, chance · To what, where: ye, land, pass, man
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 (Lancelot, we, venture), 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 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Had | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Had | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 land | punct |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 land | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Perceval | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Perceval | cc |
| 12 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Had | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 15 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 had | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lancelot | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 had | advmod |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Had | conj |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 come | advmod |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 pass | case |
| 23 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 pass | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pass | det |
| 25 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 liveth | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 liveth | mark |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 liveth | expl |
| 29 | liveth | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | advcl |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 liveth | obj |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 bold | advmod |
| 33 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 liveth | xcomp |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 withstand | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 withstand | nsubj |
| 36 | durst | durst | ADV | _ | 37 withstand | advmod |
| 37 | withstand | withstand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 bold | advcl |
| 38 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 withstand | obj |
| 39 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 withstand | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 venture | case |
| 41 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 venture | det |
| 42 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 three | nmod |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 chance | nsubj |
| 44 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 chance | aux |
| 45 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 venture | acl:relcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | ye | brother and the land obl; Perceval obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | the land | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Lancelot | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not come | infinitive | we | such pass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pass=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | live | present | we not said here | no man | there | bold property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | ||
| 6 | withstand | present | Lancelot | ye | three obj; durst property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | chance | might | any venture | tree rules |
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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