Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 19

For this have I dared many a peril, and here will I lie dead save that ye twain tell me, in friendship or in fight, if ye know aught of Sir Agloval.

Who acts: I, ye · What happens: have, dare, lie, tell, know · To what, where: many peril, me, aught · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 have	obl
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 dared	nsubj
5	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 have	ccomp
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 peril	amod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 peril	det
8	peril	peril	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dared	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lie	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lie	cc
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 lie	advmod
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 lie	aux
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 lie	nsubj
14	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lie	xcomp
16	save	save	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 twain	obl
18	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 twain	nsubj
19	twain	twain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lie	parataxis
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 twain	parataxis
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 friendship	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 friendship	case
24	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	parataxis
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 fight	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 fight	case
27	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 friendship	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 know	mark
30	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 know	nsubj
31	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	advcl
32	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	31 know	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Agloval	case
34	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Agloval	nmod:desc
35	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 aught	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present					for this	tree rules
2	dare	past	I	a many peril				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peril=Recipient
3	lie	future	I			here	dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me		friendship or fight parataxis	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	know a condition, not said to happen	present	ye	aught of Agloval Sir				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer aught=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 19

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 19