Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 42
Now will I leave this tale and tell ye how Morien rode again to his father, whom he had left sick with his uncle, as I gave ye to wit afore.
Who acts: I, Morien · What happens: leave, tell, ride, give, wit · To what, where: tale, ye, father · 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Morien), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 leave | advmod |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tale | det |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tell | cc |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leave | conj |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 rode | advmod |
| 11 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | nsubj |
| 12 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 rode | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 father | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 left | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 left | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 left | aux |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 father | acl:relcl |
| 22 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 left | xcomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 uncle | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 25 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gave | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 gave | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 gave | nsubj |
| 29 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 left | conj |
| 30 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 gave | iobj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 wit | mark |
| 32 | wit | wit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 gave | xcomp |
| 33 | afore | afore | ADV | _ | 32 wit | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | future | I | this tale | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | I not said here | ye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | Morien | again | to Morien's father | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to father=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | leave | past · perfect · passive | Morien's father | with Morien's uncle; Morien nsubj; sick property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with uncle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | past | I | ye | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wit | to-infinitive | I not said here | afore 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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