Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 26

Here have I foes nigh at hand, who have wrought me harm, and were ready to do yet more did they know me to be here, in this place."

Who acts: I, hand, foes · What happens: have, foe, be, do, know · To what, where: hand, wrought harm, more, me · 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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hand, foes), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 have	advmod
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 foes	nsubj
4	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	7 hand	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 hand	case
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 foes	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hand	conj
11	wrought	wrought	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 harm	amod
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 wrought	obl
13	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ready	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ready	cc
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ready	cop
17	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 know	advcl
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 do	obj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 ready	parataxis
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 know	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 here	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 here	cop
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 know	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 place	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 place	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 place	det
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 know	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present			here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	foe		I		hand		tree rules
3	have	present	hand	wrought harm			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Patient
4	is	past				ready property	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	foes = foe not said here	more			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
6	know	past · do-support	foes = foe	me		this place conj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
7	is	to-infinitive				here 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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 26