Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 1
"So help me God," quoth Morien, "an it fall out according to my will there shall I be ere even.
Who acts: you, it, I · What happens: help, quoth, fall out, accord, be · To what, where: me, Morien
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, it, I), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 help | advmod |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 help | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 quoth | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 quoth | punct |
| 8 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | conj |
| 9 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 quoth | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fall | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 fall | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fall | det |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fall | nsubj |
| 14 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 help | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 fall | compound:prt |
| 16 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 will | case |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 according | fixed |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 will | nmod:poss |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fall | advcl |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 will | advmod |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 ere | aux |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 ere | nsubj |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ere | cop |
| 24 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 3 help | advmod |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 ere | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | imperative | you not said here | me | God obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | quoth | infinitive | you not said here | Morien | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall out in a quote | infinitive | it | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | accord in a quote | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | shall | I | ere property | 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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