Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 4

Were he twofold my father he might well be in fear of death, should he fail to keep his oath, and ride with me to the Moorish land."

Who acts: twofold, man, father · What happens: be, twofold, fail, not keep, ride · To what, where: fear, oath, Moorish land

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 (twofold, man, father), 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	Were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 twofold	nsubj
3	twofold	twofold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Were	nsubj
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fear	nsubj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fear	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fear	aux
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 fear	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 fear	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 fear	case
11	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twofold	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 death	case
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fear	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fail	punct
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fail	aux
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fail	nsubj
17	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fear	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 keep	mark
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fail	xcomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 oath	nmod:poss
21	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 keep	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ride	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ride	cc
24	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 fail	parataxis
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 ride	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 land	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 land	det
29	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 land	amod
30	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ride	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 fear	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 twofold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	twofold				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	twofold		man				tree rules
3	is	might	my father		fear	of death; man nsubj; well property	tree rules
4	fail	should	man				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	not keep	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's oath			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme
6	ride	infinitive			the Moorish land	with me	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to land=Trajectory

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 4