Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 36
Believe me well, I will not lie to ye in one word."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: believe, not lie · To what, where: me, one word
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, I), 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 | Believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Believe | iobj |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Believe | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lie | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 lie | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 lie | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 lie | advmod |
| 8 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Believe | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ye | case |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 lie | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 word | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 word | nummod |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lie | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Believe | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | imperative | you not said here | me | well property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not lie | future | I | one word | to ye | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in word=Location |
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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