Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 35

Then said Sir Agloval, his father: "I will tell ye out and out how the thing stands with me, and tell ye all my counsel.

Who acts: Agloval, thing · What happens: say, tell, stand · To what, where: ye, counsel · 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 (Agloval, thing), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Agloval	nmod:desc
4	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 father	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Agloval	appos
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
13	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 tell	iobj
14	out	out	ADV	_	12 tell	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 out	cc
16	out	out	ADV	_	14 out	conj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 stands	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thing	det
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stands	nsubj
20	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	ccomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 stands	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tell	cc
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	conj
26	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 tell	iobj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 counsel	det:predet
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 counsel	nmod:poss
29	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Agloval Sir			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	Agloval Sir = agloval		ye		out property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic
3	stand in a quote	present	the thing				with Agloval Sir = agloval	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Agloval Sir = agloval not said here	my counsel	ye			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient counsel=Topic

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 35

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 35