Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 76
Counsel me as it seemeth ye best; since that I be your father, according as matters went afore 'twixt me and your mother, it behoves ye well so to do."
Who acts: you, it, that, father, peace · What happens: counsel, seem, be, accord, matter, go · To what, where: me, best, father, ye
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, it, that, father), 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 | Counsel | counsel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Counsel | obj |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 seemeth | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seemeth | nsubj |
| 5 | seemeth | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Counsel | advcl |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 best | nsubj |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 seemeth | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
| 9 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 14 father | mark |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 father | nsubj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 father | nsubj |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 father | cop |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 matters | punct |
| 16 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 matters | case |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 according | fixed |
| 18 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 father | acl:relcl |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Counsel | parataxis |
| 20 | afore | afore | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 twixt | punct |
| 22 | twixt | twixt | PROPN | _ | 19 went | parataxis |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 twixt | iobj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 mother | cc |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 me | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 behoves | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 behoves | nsubj |
| 29 | behoves | behove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Counsel | parataxis |
| 30 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 behoves | obj |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 behoves | advmod |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 do | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 do | mark |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 behoves | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Counsel | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Counsel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | counsel speech: other | imperative | you not said here | me | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | it | best ye | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme good=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | that | your father | I nsubj; your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | matter | present | your father not said here | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | go | past | your father | twixt me parataxis; afore property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | behove | present | peace | ye | well property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | do | to-infinitive | peace not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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