Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 57
Yet, nephew, trow me well, I were loth to bid thee break thine oath; now, therefore, make ready as befits thee, and depart as swiftly as may be, and seek me Perceval."
Who acts: nephew, I · What happens: trow, be, bid, break, make, befit · To what, where: me, thee, oath
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 (nephew, 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 trow | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nephew | punct |
| 3 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trow | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nephew | punct |
| 5 | trow | trow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 trow | obj |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 trow | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 loth | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 loth | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 loth | cop |
| 11 | loth | loth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 trow | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 bid | mark |
| 13 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 loth | csubj |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 bid | obj |
| 15 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bid | xcomp |
| 16 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 oath | nmod:poss |
| 17 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 break | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 make | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 now | punct |
| 21 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 23 make | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 therefore | punct |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trow | conj |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 make | xcomp |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 befits | mark |
| 26 | befits | befit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 make | advcl |
| 27 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 befits | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 depart | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 depart | cc |
| 30 | depart | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trow | parataxis |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 35 be | cc |
| 32 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 31 as | fixed |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 as | fixed |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 be | aux |
| 35 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 depart | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 seek | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 seek | cc |
| 38 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 depart | conj |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 seek | obj |
| 40 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 seek | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trow | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 trow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trow | infinitive | nephew | me | well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | I | loth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bid | to-infinitive | thee | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | break | infinitive | thine oath | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oath=Patient | |||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | nephew not said here | now | ready, therefore property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 6 | befit | present | nephew not said here | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | depart | present | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | be | may | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | seek | infinitive | me | Perceval obj | 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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