Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 18

Now bethink ye well, and say if ye will come or no. When ye parted from my mother she bare me though she knew it not.

Who acts: you, ye, lady · What happens: bethink, say, come, part, bear, not know · To what, where: ye, me, no. · 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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ye, lady), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 bethink	advmod
2	bethink	bethink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 bethink	obj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 bethink	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 bethink	conj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 come	mark
9	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 come	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 no.	cc
13	no.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	11 come	conj
14	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 parted	advmod
15	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 parted	nsubj
16	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	advcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 mother	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bare	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bare	nsubj
21	bare	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 parted	ccomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 bare	obj
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 knew	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knew	nsubj
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bare	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knew	obj
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 knew	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bethink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bethink	imperative	you not said here	ye	now	well property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come a condition, not said to happen	future	ye			no. conj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	part	past	ye				tree rules
5	bear	infinitive	lady	me		from my mother	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6	not know	past	lady	no.			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 10, sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 18