Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 87

Then did they all, and Sir Agloval with them, so straitly pray the uncle that he granted their request, and never might ye see at any time folk so blithe as were these knights in that Sir Perceval would ride with them.

Who acts: Sir, ye, time folk, uncle · What happens: do, pray, grant, not see, be, ride · To what, where: all, uncle, request, Perceval · 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 (Sir, ye, time folk, uncle), 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 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 all	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 did	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Agloval	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Agloval	cc
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Agloval	nmod:desc
8	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Agloval	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pray	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 pray	advmod
13	straitly	straitly	ADV	_	14 pray	advmod
14	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 uncle	det
16	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pray	obj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 granted	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 granted	nsubj
19	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 uncle	acl
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 request	nmod:poss
21	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 granted	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 see	advmod
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
26	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 see	nsubj
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pray	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 folk	case
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 folk	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 folk	compound
31	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 ride	nsubj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 blithe	advmod
33	blithe	blithe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 folk	amod
34	as	as	ADP	_	37 knights	case
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 knights	cop
36	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 knights	det
37	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 blithe	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 Perceval	case
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 Perceval	nsubj
40	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Perceval	nmod:desc
41	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 knights	nmod
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 ride	aux
43	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 see	ccomp
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 ride	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		all uncle		then	Agloval Sir with uncle parataxis	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
2	pray	present		the uncle			straitly property	tree rules
3	grant	past	Sir	uncle's request				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme
4	not see	might	ye					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	is	past			Perceval that Sir		as this knights	tree rules
6	ride	would	any time folk				with uncle	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	request		uncle					nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 87

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 87