Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 75
Now, son, bethink ye of our profit, yours and mine, according to that which has befallen me, and that ye have now heard even as I tell ye.
Who acts: son, I, our · What happens: bethink, accord, befall, hear, tell, profit · To what, where: that, ye · 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 (son, I, our), 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 | 5 bethink | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bethink | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | bethink | bethink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 yours | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 profit | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 profit | nmod:poss |
| 9 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yours | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 yours | punct |
| 11 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bethink | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mine | cc |
| 13 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 yours | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 befallen | punct |
| 15 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 befallen | csubj:pass |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 according | fixed |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 befallen | aux |
| 20 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bethink | parataxis |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 befallen | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 heard | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 heard | cc |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 heard | mark |
| 25 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 heard | aux |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 heard | advmod |
| 28 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 befallen | conj |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 32 tell | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 tell | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 tell | nsubj |
| 32 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 heard | parataxis |
| 33 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 tell | iobj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bethink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | infinitive | son | now | yours conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | befall | present · perfect · passive | that | which nsubj:pass; me obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hear | present · perfect · passive | ye | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present | I | ye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | profit | our | nom profit «possession intransitive»: 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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