Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 23

Come ye to me here within to mine uncle and my brother, they shall counsel us well when they hear our tale--so shall we be more at ease."

Who acts: you, uncle, we, our · What happens: come, counsel, hear, be, tell · To what, where: ye, me, us, tale, ease · 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, uncle, we, our), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 Come	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Come	obl
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Come	advmod
6	within	within	ADP	_	9 uncle	case
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 uncle	case
8	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 uncle	nsubj
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 brother	cc
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brother	nmod:poss
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 uncle	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 counsel	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 counsel	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 counsel	aux
16	counsel	counsel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Come	conj
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 counsel	obj
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 counsel	advmod
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 hear	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hear	nsubj
21	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 counsel	advcl
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 tale	nmod:poss
23	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hear	obj
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 ease	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	31 ease	advmod
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 ease	aux
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 ease	nsubj
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 ease	cop
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 ease	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 ease	case
31	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here	ye	me	here	within uncle mine and my brother	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ye=Theme
2	counsel speech: other	shall	uncle		us		well property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
3	hear	present	uncle	our tale				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus
4	is	shall	we			ease		tree rules
5	tell		our					nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 23