Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 84
I shall return, be ye sure of it, when the time is ripe, and shall ever think of ye as my father."
Who acts: I, ye, time · What happens: return, be, think
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, ye, time), 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 return | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 return | aux |
| 3 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sure | cop |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 sure | nsubj |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 return | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sure | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ripe | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 ripe | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ripe | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ripe | cop |
| 15 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 return | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 think | cc |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 think | aux |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 think | advmod |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ripe | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ye | case |
| 22 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 think | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 father | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 think | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | shall | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | ye | of honour; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the time | ripe property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | shall | the time not said here | ever | of ye; as my father | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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