Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 78
Now, Sir Knight, give me answer, by your troth, so truly as ye know, to that which I shall ask ye, and delay not, otherwise may ye well rue it!"
Who acts: Sir, ye · What happens: give, answer, know, ask, not delay, rue · To what, where: me, troth, ye
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 (Sir, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 give | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 give | nsubj |
| 4 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sir | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sir | punct |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 troth | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 troth | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 troth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answer | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 truly | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 truly | advmod |
| 15 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 25 ask | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 know | mark |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 ask | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 that | case |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 ask | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 ask | nsubj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 ask | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 ask | aux |
| 25 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | conj |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 ask | iobj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 delay | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 delay | cc |
| 29 | delay | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | conj |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 delay | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rue | punct |
| 32 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 36 rue | advmod |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 rue | aux |
| 34 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 rue | nsubj |
| 35 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 rue | advmod |
| 36 | rue | rue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 delay | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 rue | obj |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | infinitive | Sir | me | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | Sir not said here | your troth | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent troth=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | know | present | ye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | shall | ye | to that; which nsubj; I nsubj; truly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | not delay | infinitive | Sir not said here | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | rue | may | ye | troth | otherwise, well property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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