Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 64
This I tell ye of a truth, each betokeneth a day, or a week, or it may be a month; but of this be ye sure, and doubt not, so long shall he live, and then shall he yield up his life.
Who acts: This, each, step, door · What happens: tell, betoken, be, live, yield up · To what, where: ye, month, life · 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 (This, each, step, door), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 truth | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 truth | det |
| 7 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ye | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 betokeneth | punct |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 betokeneth | nsubj |
| 10 | betokeneth | betoken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 betokeneth | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 week | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 week | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 week | det |
| 16 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 betokeneth | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 month | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 month | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 month | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 month | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 month | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 month | det |
| 23 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 betokeneth | parataxis |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 sure | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 sure | cc |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 sure | mark |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 sure | nsubj |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 sure | cop |
| 29 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 sure | nsubj |
| 30 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tell | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 doubt | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 doubt | cc |
| 33 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sure | obl |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 doubt | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 live | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 long | advmod |
| 37 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 live | advmod |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 live | aux |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 live | nsubj |
| 40 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 yield | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 yield | cc |
| 43 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 yield | advmod |
| 44 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 yield | aux |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 yield | nsubj |
| 46 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 live | conj |
| 47 | up | up | ADP | _ | 46 yield | compound:prt |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 life | nmod:poss |
| 49 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 yield | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | This | ye of a truth | I nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | betoken | present | each | day; week | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | may | step | a month | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | this | doubt obl; ye nsubj; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | live | shall | door | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | yield up | shall | door | door's life | then | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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