Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 72
Now ye will that I journey with ye to your mother in the Moorish land, and I were fain to ride thither were I but healed.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, ride, heal · To what, where: I, journey
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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 journey | advmod |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 journey | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 journey | aux |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 journey | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 journey | nsubj |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 ye | case |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 journey | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 mother | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ye | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 14 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 land | amod |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mother | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fain | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fain | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 fain | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fain | cop |
| 20 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mother | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 ride | mark |
| 22 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fain | csubj |
| 23 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 22 ride | advmod |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 I | cop |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ye | conj |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 healed | cc |
| 27 | healed | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ye | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 journey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | fain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ride | to-infinitive | thither property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | heal | past | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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