Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 83
Sir Gariët answered and said, "That ye vex yourselves thus to seek him, 'tis labour lost, for tidings have come to court that Perceval hath become hermit, and doeth penance for his sins.
Who acts: Sir, That, tidings, Perceval · What happens: answer, say, vex, seek, lose, come · To what, where: yourselves, Sir, tis labour, hermit, penance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sir, That, tidings, Perceval), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 vex | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 vex | punct |
| 8 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 vex | nsubj |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 vex | nsubj |
| 10 | vex | vex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 vex | obj |
| 12 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 vex | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 seek | mark |
| 14 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 vex | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seek | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 labour | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 labour | punct |
| 18 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 labour | compound |
| 19 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seek | conj |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 labour | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 come | mark |
| 23 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 lost | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 court | case |
| 27 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 become | obl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 hath | mark |
| 29 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 hath | nsubj |
| 30 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 become | advcl |
| 31 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | conj |
| 32 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 become | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 doeth | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 doeth | cc |
| 35 | doeth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 36 | penance | penance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 doeth | obj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 sins | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 sins | nmod:poss |
| 39 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 doeth | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Sir | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sir not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | vex in a quote | present | That | yourselves | ye nsubj; thus property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourselves=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | seek in a quote | to-infinitive | That not said here | Sir | tis labour conj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | lose in a quote | participle | tis labour not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | come in a quote | present · perfect | tidings | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | have in a quote | present | Perceval | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | become in a quote | present | tidings not said here | hermit | to court | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 9 | do in a quote | present | Sir not said here | penance | for Sir's sins | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penance=Eventuality |
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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