Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 3

Yet might I live, and would God grant to me that all ye who sit here beside me might hear my words, I had fain spoken with the king, whom I sought as best I might, in that I would not be forsworn; needs must I come hither!"

Who acts: I, God, ye, all, needs, my · What happens: live, grant, sit, hear, have, speak · To what, where: me, words, king, I · 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 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, God, ye, all), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	4 live	cc
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 live	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grant	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grant	cc
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 grant	aux
8	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 grant	nsubj
9	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 live	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 grant	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 hear	mark
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 hear	nsubj
14	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 sit	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sit	nsubj
16	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 all	acl:relcl
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 sit	advmod
18	beside	beside	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 all	nmod
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hear	aux
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 grant	advcl
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 words	nmod:poss
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hear	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 live	conj
27	fain	fain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 had	xcomp
28	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 fain	acl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 king	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spoken	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sought	punct
33	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 sought	obj
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 sought	nsubj
35	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 king	acl:relcl
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 best	advmod
37	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 sought	obj
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 might	nsubj
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 best	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 forsworn	punct
41	in	in	SCONJ	_	47 forsworn	mark
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 forsworn	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 forsworn	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 forsworn	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 forsworn	advmod
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 forsworn	aux:pass
47	forsworn	forswear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 sought	conj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 come	punct
49	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 come	nsubj
50	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 come	aux
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 come	nsubj
52	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 live	conj
53	hither	hither	ADV	_	52 come	advmod
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	52 come	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	might	I					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grant	would	God		me			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to i=Goal
3	sit	present	ye			here	who nsubj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	might	all beside me	my words				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
5	have	past	I				fain property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	speak speech: other	participle					with the king	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with king=Co-Agent
7	seek	past	I	the king				tree rules
8	not forswear	would · passive		I				tree rules
9	come	must	needs				I nsubj; hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	word		my					nom word «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 2, sentence 3

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 3