Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 20
Now have we had enow of this talk; 'tis full time ye answer, or we take up our strife once again, and see the which of us hath the sooner his full."
Who acts: we, ye, tis · What happens: have, answer, take up, see · To what, where: enow, full time, strife · 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 (we, ye, tis), 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 | 2 have | advmod |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | ccomp |
| 5 | enow | enow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 talk | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 talk | det |
| 8 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enow | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 tis | punct |
| 11 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | nsubj |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tis | conj |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 answer | nsubj |
| 15 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 time | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 take | cc |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 take | nsubj |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 answer | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 take | compound:prt |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 strife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 again | advmod |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 take | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 see | cc |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 which | det |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 hath | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 us | case |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 which | obl |
| 32 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | ccomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sooner | det |
| 34 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 hath | advmod |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 full | nmod:poss |
| 36 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sooner | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | now | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | we | enow of this talk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enow=Patient | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | present | ye | full time not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | take up | present | we | our strife | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strife=Theme | |||
| 5 | see | infinitive | tis and full time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | have | present | which of us nsubj; soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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