Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 12
God grant me good counsel therein, since I do it not for cowardice, but for love of ye and for your prayer."
Who acts: God, I, your · What happens: grant, do, pray · To what, where: good counsel, me, counsel
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, I, 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grant | nsubj |
| 2 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 grant | obj |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 counsel | amod |
| 5 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grant | obj |
| 6 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 2 grant | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grant | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 cowardice | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 cowardice | case |
| 14 | cowardice | cowardice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 prayer | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 prayer | cc |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 love | case |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prayer | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ye | case |
| 20 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 prayer | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 prayer | cc |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 prayer | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 24 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grant | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grant | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | infinitive | God | good counsel | me | your prayer for love of ye parataxis; therein property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal counsel=Theme | ||
| 2 | do | present | I | counsel | for cowardice | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | pray | your | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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