Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 52
On this covenant and on this behest would Sir Gariët ride with him and bear Morien company.
What happens: ride, bear · To what, where: covenant, Morien company
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 covenant | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 covenant | det |
| 3 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ride | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 behest | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 behest | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 behest | det |
| 7 | behest | behest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covenant | conj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 Gariët | aux |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gariët | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 behest | nmod |
| 11 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ride | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bear | cc |
| 15 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ride | conj |
| 16 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 company | compound |
| 17 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bear | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | present | this covenant and this behest Gariët Sir | with Sir | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bear | infinitive | Morien company | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient |
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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