Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 14
He was not altogether dull in that he had so well bethought him, and brought food with him lest peradventure he have need thereof. '
Who acts: Sir · What happens: not be, have, bethink, bring, need · To what, where: Sir, food
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 (Sir), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dull | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dull | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dull | advmod |
| 4 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 5 dull | advmod |
| 5 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 bethought | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bethought | advcl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 bethought | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 bethought | advmod |
| 12 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dull | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bethought | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 brought | cc |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dull | conj |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | obl |
| 20 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 23 have | mark |
| 21 | peradventure | peradventure | ADV | _ | 23 have | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 need | aux |
| 24 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | conj |
| 25 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 24 need | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dull | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Sir | altogether, dull property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Sir | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bethink | past | Sir not said here | Sir | well property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | bring | past | Sir not said here | food | with Sir | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||
| 5 | need | present | Sir not said here | thereof 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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