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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

objmarknsubjadvclnsubjobjpunctmarknsubjnsubjcopnmod:possnsubjpunctcasefixedacl:relclparataxisadvmodpunctparataxisiobjccnmod:possconjpunctnsubjparataxisobjadvmodadvmodmarkadvclpunctpunctrootCounselVERBmePRONasSCONJitPRONseemethVERByePRONbestADJ;PUNCTsinceSCONJthatPRONIPRONbeAUXyourPRONfatherNOUN,PUNCTaccordingVERBasADPmattersVERBwentVERBaforeADV'PUNCTtwixtPROPNmePRONandCCONJyourPRONmotherNOUN,PUNCTitPRONbehovesVERByePRONwellADVsoADVtoPARTdoVERB.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1CounselcounselVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs1 Counselobj
3asasSCONJ_5 seemethmark
4ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 seemethnsubj
5seemethseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin1 Counseladvcl
6yeyePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch7 bestnsubj
7bestgoodADJDegree=Sup5 seemethobj
8;;PUNCT_14 fatherpunct
9sincesinceSCONJ_14 fathermark
10thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem14 fathernsubj
11IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 fathernsubj
12bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf14 fathercop
13youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 fathernmod:poss
14fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing19 wentnsubj
15,,PUNCT_18 matterspunct
16accordingaccordVERBExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part18 matterscase
17asasADP_16 accordingfixed
18mattersmatterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 fatheracl:relcl
19wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin1 Counselparataxis
20aforeaforeADV_19 wentadvmod
21''PUNCT_22 twixtpunct
22twixttwixtPROPN_19 wentparataxis
23meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 twixtiobj
24andandCCONJ_26 mothercc
25youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 mothernmod:poss
26mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing23 meconj
27,,PUNCT_29 behovespunct
28ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 behovesnsubj
29behovesbehoveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin1 Counselparataxis
30yeyePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch29 behovesobj
31wellwellADVDegree=Pos29 behovesadvmod
32sosoADV_34 doadvmod
33totoPART_34 domark
34dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf29 behovesadvcl
35..PUNCT_1 Counselpunct
36""PUNCT_1 Counselpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1counsel speech: otherimperativeyou not said heremevn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2seempresentitbest yevn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme good=Attribute
3is ainfinitivethatyour fatherI nsubj; your nmod:posstree rules
4accordgerundvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5matterpresentyour father not said herevn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
6gopastyour fathertwixt me parataxis; afore propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7behovepresentpeaceyewell propertytree rules
8doto-infinitivepeace not said herevn 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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