Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 68
My heart and my mind fore-tell me that will we but hold out here within it shall be to our honour!"
Who acts: heart · What happens: tell, hold out, be · To what, where: we · 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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fore | cc |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fore | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fore | compound |
| 6 | fore | fore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heart | conj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 fore | punct |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 will | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 hold | cc |
| 14 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 hold | compound:prt |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 hold | advmod |
| 17 | within | within | ADP | _ | 23 honour | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 honour | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 honour | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 honour | cop |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 honour | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 honour | nmod:poss |
| 23 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hold | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | My heart and my mind fore | we | me iobj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient we=Topic | |||
| 2 | hold out | present | My heart and my mind fore not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | heart | within our honour; our nmod:poss | 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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