Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 80
Hold to your custom an ye will; I were more fain to fight than to let ye be, if but to fell your pride.
Who acts: you, I, ye, your · What happens: hold, be, fight, let, fall, pride · To what, where: ye, pride
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 (you, I, ye, your), 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 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 custom | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 custom | nmod:poss |
| 4 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hold | obl |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 will | det |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 will | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 custom | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 fain | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 fain | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fain | cop |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 fain | advmod |
| 12 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Hold | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fight | mark |
| 14 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fain | xcomp |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 let | mark |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 let | mark |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fain | advcl |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fell | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 fell | mark |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 fell | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 fell | mark |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hold | advcl |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 pride | nmod:poss |
| 26 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | imperative | you not said here | to your custom | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I | fain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | let | to-infinitive | I not said here | ye | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | infinitive | ye not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fall a condition, not said to happen | past | you not said here | your pride | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient pride=Result | ||||
| 7 | pride | your | nom pride «feeling 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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