Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 59
Now will I make me ready, and ride hence without longer tarrying; methinks, from the king's word, an he have Perceval he shall be freed from care--so will I ride hence for his honour."
Who acts: I, an, king, Perceval · What happens: make, ride, tarry, have, free, word · To what, where: me, methinks, Perceval, care
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, an, king, Perceval), 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 make | advmod |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ride | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ride | cc |
| 9 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 10 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 9 ride | advmod |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 longer | case |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 tarrying | advmod |
| 13 | tarrying | tarry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ride | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 methinks | punct |
| 15 | methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ride | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 word | punct |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 word | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 word | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 king | case |
| 21 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ride | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 have | nsubj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 word | parataxis |
| 26 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 freed | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 freed | aux:pass |
| 30 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 have | parataxis |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 care | case |
| 32 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 freed | obl |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 ride | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 ride | advmod |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 ride | aux |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 ride | nsubj |
| 37 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | parataxis |
| 38 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 37 ride | advmod |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 honour | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 honour | nmod:poss |
| 41 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ride | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | I | me | now | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | ||
| 2 | ride | present | methinks | the king's word parataxis; hence property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tarry | gerund | long property | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | infinitive | an | Perceval | king nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perceval=Patient | |||
| 5 | free | shall · passive | Perceval | care | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | ||||
| 6 | ride | future | I | for Perceval's honour; hence property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | word | the king | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | honour | Perceval | nom honour «state 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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