Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 51
Thus they rode both together, for Morien sware an oath that, would Sir Gariët ride with him, he would e'en pray his uncle and his father to come to the aid of the queen, King Arthur's wife, and help her to win back her land.
Who acts: adventures, Sir, e'en · What happens: ride, pray, come, help, win back · To what, where: oath, uncle, aid, e'en, 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 (adventures, Sir, e'en), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | both | both | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sware | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 sware | case |
| 8 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sware | compound |
| 9 | sware | sware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 oath | det |
| 11 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 ride | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 that | punct |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 ride | aux |
| 15 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ride | nsubj |
| 16 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sir | flat |
| 17 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 oath | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ride | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pray | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pray | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 pray | aux |
| 23 | e'en | e'en | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pray | nsubj |
| 24 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rode | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 26 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pray | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 father | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 father | nmod:poss |
| 29 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 uncle | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 come | mark |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 pray | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 aid | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 aid | det |
| 34 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 come | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 queen | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 queen | det |
| 37 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 aid | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 wife | punct |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Arthur | compound |
| 40 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 wife | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 Arthur | case |
| 42 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 queen | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 help | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 help | cc |
| 45 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rode | advcl |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 help | obj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 win | mark |
| 48 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 help | xcomp |
| 49 | back | back | ADV | _ | 48 win | advmod |
| 50 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 land | nmod:poss |
| 51 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 win | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | adventures = adventure | a oath | for Morien sware; both, thus, together property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | ride | would | Sir | a oath | with Gawain | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||
| 3 | pray | would | Sir | Sir's uncle and Sir's father | e'en nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | Sir not said here | the aid of the queen and King Arthur's wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | help | infinitive | adventures = adventure not said here | e'en | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | win back | to-infinitive | e'en not said here | e'en's land | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Eventuality |
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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