Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 3
Rather would I, ere even, be flayed with a sharp knife than refrain from this.
What happens: flay · To what, where: this
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: 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 | Rather | rather | ADV | _ | 2 would | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 flayed | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 would | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 even | punct |
| 5 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 6 even | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 flayed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 even | punct |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 flayed | aux:pass |
| 9 | flayed | flay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 knife | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 knife | det |
| 12 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knife | amod |
| 13 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flayed | obl |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 refrain | case |
| 15 | refrain | refrain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knife | nmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 this | case |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 flayed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 flayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flay | would · passive | this | with a sharp knife than refrain | 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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