Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 39
Have ye altogether forgot how ye boasted yourself aforetime, even as ye have now done, and then how ye met Perceval, whom ye had scarce sought?
Who acts: ye · What happens: have, forget, boast, do, meet, seek · To what, where: yourself, Perceval
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 (ye), 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 forgot | nsubj |
| 3 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 4 forgot | advmod |
| 4 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Have | ccomp |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 boasted | advmod |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 boasted | nsubj |
| 7 | boasted | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgot | conj |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 boasted | obj |
| 9 | aforetime | aforetime | ADV | _ | 7 boasted | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 done | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 done | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 done | advmod |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 boasted | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 met | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 met | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 met | advmod |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 met | advmod |
| 21 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 met | nsubj |
| 22 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgot | conj |
| 23 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 25 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 had | obj |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sought | aux |
| 28 | scarce | scarce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 29 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 met | ccomp |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | forget | past | ye | altogether property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | boast speech: other | past | ye | yourself | aforetime property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | do | present · perfect | ye | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | meet | past | ye | then | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | seek | past · perfect · passive | Perceval | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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