Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 65
Would ye have good fortune ye must await what cometh, and I have good hope that heaven shall shortly send us help.
Who acts: ye, I, heaven, good hope · What happens: have, await, come, send, help · To what, where: good fortune, good hope, us
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, I, heaven, good hope), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fortune | amod |
| 5 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 await | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 await | aux |
| 8 | await | await | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fortune | acl:relcl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 cometh | nsubj |
| 10 | cometh | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 await | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | advcl |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hope | amod |
| 16 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 send | obj |
| 18 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 send | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 send | aux |
| 20 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 21 send | advmod |
| 21 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hope | acl:relcl |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 send | iobj |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 send | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | ye | good fortune | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient | ||||
| 2 | await | must | ye | good fortune not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | present | what nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | present | I | good hope | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient | ||||
| 5 | send | shall | heaven | good hope | us | shortly property | tree rules | ||
| 6 | help | infinitive | good hope not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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