Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 87
If he might tell him aught of them he besought him to do so; an he knew where they yet abode he would give him great thanks.
Who acts: other, knights · What happens: tell, beseech, do, know, abide, give · To what, where: aught, Tis, great thanks · 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 (other, knights), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 tell | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 4 tell | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 aught | nmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 besought | nsubj |
| 10 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 aught | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 besought | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 besought | xcomp |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 do | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 knew | det |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | parataxis |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 abode | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 abode | nsubj |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 22 abode | advmod |
| 22 | abode | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 knew | advcl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 give | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 give | aux |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 abode | ccomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 thanks | amod |
| 28 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 25 give | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | might | other | aught of knights | Tis | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient aught=Topic | |||
| 2 | beseech | past | other | Tis | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | other not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | past | other | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | abide | past | knights = knight | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | give | would | other | great thanks | Tis | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thanks=Theme |
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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