Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 67
Thus did the wise master make known to him his dream, and bade him thereof take warning and order his ways with wisdom, and that speedily, and delay not, for here should he abide no long time, but drew nigh to his end.
Who acts: you, wise master, master · What happens: do, make, know, take, order, not delay · To what, where: dream, master, bade, ways, end
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, wise master, master), 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 | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 delay | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 master | det |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 master | amod |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | nsubj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 make | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 known | obl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dream | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 known | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 take | cc |
| 14 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bade | obj |
| 16 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 17 take | advmod |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 18 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 order | cc |
| 20 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 take | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ways | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 order | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 wisdom | case |
| 24 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 order | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 speedily | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 speedily | cc |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 speedily | nsubj |
| 28 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 delay | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 delay | cc |
| 31 | delay | delay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 delay | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 abide | punct |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 here | case |
| 35 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 abide | obl |
| 36 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 abide | aux |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 abide | nsubj |
| 38 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 delay | conj |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 time | det |
| 40 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 time | amod |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 abide | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 drew | punct |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 drew | cc |
| 44 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 delay | parataxis |
| 45 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 44 drew | advmod |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 end | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 end | nmod:poss |
| 48 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 drew | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 delay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | you not said here | speedily, thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | the wise master | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | participle | the wise master not said here | master's dream | master | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dream=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | take | present | bade dream | warning obj; thereof property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme | ||||
| 5 | order | infinitive | master's ways | with wisdom | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not delay | imperative | you not said here | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | abide | should | master | time | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | draw | past | to master's end | nigh property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to end=Destination | ||||
| 9 | dream | master | nom dream «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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