Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 77
Against this did I prepare myself, and brought with me food, meat and bread, lest I had need thereof, and cool clear wine in two flasks that hang here by my saddle, that I might lay my hand on them when I had need thereto."
Who acts: this, I, two flasks · What happens: prepare, bring, have, need, hang, lay · To what, where: myself, food, hand
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 (this, I, two flasks), 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 | Against | against | SCONJ | _ | 5 prepare | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 prepare | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prepare | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 prepare | nsubj |
| 5 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 need | advcl |
| 6 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 prepare | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prepare | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obl |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 meat | punct |
| 14 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 food | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bread | cc |
| 16 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 food | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 18 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 need | advcl |
| 21 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 21 need | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wine | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wine | cc |
| 25 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wine | amod |
| 26 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wine | amod |
| 27 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 need | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 flasks | case |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 flasks | nummod |
| 30 | flasks | flask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 wine | nmod |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 hang | nsubj |
| 32 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 flasks | acl:relcl |
| 33 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 hang | advmod |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 saddle | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 36 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hang | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 lay | punct |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 lay | mark |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 lay | nsubj |
| 40 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 lay | aux |
| 41 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 need | conj |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 hand | nmod:poss |
| 43 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lay | obj |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 them | case |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 lay | obl |
| 46 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 49 need | advmod |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 need | nsubj |
| 48 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 need | aux |
| 49 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 lay | advcl |
| 50 | thereto | thereto | ADV | _ | 49 need | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 need | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past · do-support | this | myself | I nsubj | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | |||
| 2 | bring | past | this not said here | food and meat and bread | with me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | need | present | cool clear wine in two flasks conj; thereof property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | hang | present | two flasks | here | by my saddle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by saddle=Location | |||
| 6 | lay | might | I | my hand | on man | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on they=Destination | |||
| 7 | need | past | I | thereto property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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