Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 23

Therefore must I yield myself to him, and swear by my troth, would I save my life, to come hither to ye as swiftly as I might, and delay no whit, but yield me your prisoner.

Who acts: I · What happens: yield, swear, save, come, delay · To what, where: myself, knight, life, ye, whit, prisoner

This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 yield	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 yield	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 yield	nsubj
4	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 yield	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yield	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swear	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 swear	cc
10	swear	swear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 yield	parataxis
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 troth	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 troth	nmod:poss
13	troth	troth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swear	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 save	punct
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 save	aux
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 save	nsubj
17	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 swear	conj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 life	nmod:poss
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 save	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 come	mark
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 save	conj
23	hither	hither	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 ye	case
25	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 come	obl
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 swiftly	advmod
27	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 might	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 might	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 swiftly	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 delay	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 delay	cc
33	delay	delay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 swear	parataxis
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 whit	det
35	whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 delay	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 yield	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 yield	cc
38	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 delay	conj
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 yield	obj
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 prisoner	nmod:poss
41	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 yield	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 yield	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	yield	must	I	myself	knight		therefore property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to he=Goal
2	swear	infinitive					by my troth	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	save	would	I	my life				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
4	come	to-infinitive	I not said here			ye	hither, swiftly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ye=Initial_Location
5	delay	present		no whit				vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent whit=Source
6	yield	infinitive		your prisoner	me			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal prisoner=Theme

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 2, sentence 23

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 23