Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 77

Then quoth Morien: "Were ye better healed I would ride gladly, but it becometh me well to shun aught that might do ye harm or mischief.

Who acts: you, door, peace, ye · What happens: quoth, heal, ride, become, shun, do · To what, where: Morien, ye, door, aught · 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 (you, door, peace, ye), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 quoth	advmod
2	quoth	quoth	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Morien	Morien	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 quoth	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 healed	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 healed	punct
6	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 healed	aux:pass
7	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 healed	nsubj
8	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 healed	advmod
9	healed	heal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 quoth	advcl
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ride	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ride	aux
12	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 healed	parataxis
13	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	12 ride	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 becometh	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 becometh	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 becometh	nsubj
17	becometh	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 quoth	parataxis
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 becometh	obj
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 becometh	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 shun	mark
21	shun	shun	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 becometh	advcl
22	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	21 shun	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 do	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 aught	acl:relcl
26	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 harm	nsubj
27	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 do	xcomp
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 mischief	cc
29	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 aught	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 quoth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	quoth	imperative	you not said here	Morien	then		tree rules
2	heal in a quote	past · passive		ye		well property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	ride in a quote	would	door			gladly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	become in a quote	present	peace	door		well property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient i=Result
5	shun in a quote	to-infinitive	peace not said here	aught mischief			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent aught=Location
6	do in a quote	might					tree rules
7	harm in a quote	infinitive	ye				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 77

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 77