Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 38

Thus they abode that day with the hermit, and were better served, in all that men might prepare for them, than I may well tell ye; and Morien prayed his father straitly that he would delay not, but would tell him what was in his thought and in his intent.

Who acts: things, men, I, Morien, hermit · What happens: abide, be, prepare, tell, pray, not delay · To what, where: ye, father, hermit, thought · 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 (things, men, I, Morien), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 abode	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 abode	nsubj
3	abode	abide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 abode	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hermit	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hermit	det
8	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 better	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 better	cc
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 better	cop
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 abode	conj
13	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 better	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 prepare	punct
15	in	in	SCONJ	_	20 prepare	mark
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 men	det:predet
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 men	det
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 prepare	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 prepare	aux
20	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 abode	parataxis
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 prepare	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 tell	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tell	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	aux
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 tell	advmod
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 prepare	conj
29	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 tell	iobj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 prayed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 prayed	cc
32	Morien	Morien	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 prayed	nsubj
33	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 abode	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 father	nmod:poss
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 prayed	obj
36	straitly	straitly	ADV	_	33 prayed	advmod
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 delay	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 delay	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 delay	aux
40	delay	delay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 prayed	advcl
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 delay	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 tell	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 tell	cc
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 tell	aux
45	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 abode	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 tell	iobj
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	51 thought	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 thought	cop
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 thought	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 thought	nmod:poss
51	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 tell	ccomp
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 intent	cc
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 intent	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 intent	nmod:poss
55	intent	intent	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 thought	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 abode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	abide	past	things = thing				day	thus property	tree rules
2	is	past	things = thing not said here					good property	tree rules
3	prepare	might	all men					for things = thing	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary
4	tell speech: assert	may	I		ye			well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient
5	pray	past	Morien	hermit's father				straitly property	tree rules
6	not delay	would	hermit						vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	would	things = thing not said here		hermit				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	is	past				hermit's thought and hermit's intent		what nsubj; hermit nmod:poss; hermit's intent conj	tree rules
9	intend		hermit						nom intent «cognition transitive»: 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 38

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 38