Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 78
I can give ye none other counsel than that ye abide here till ye be once more whole.
Who acts: I, none, ye · What happens: give, counsel, abide, be · To what, where: 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 (I, none, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 counsel | nsubj |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 counsel | amod |
| 7 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 give | obl |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 abide | nsubj |
| 11 | abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | parataxis |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 abide | advmod |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 whole | mark |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 whole | nsubj |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 whole | cop |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 whole | advmod |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 abide | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | can | I | ye | than that | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme | |||
| 2 | counsel speech: other | none | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | abide | present | ye | here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | ye | whole property | tree rules |
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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