Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 30

Still more may I tell ye; he told my mother that he and many of his fellows had sworn a great oath to seek Sir Lancelot, and their quest should endure two years or more an they found him not, or could learn no tidings of him.

Who acts: I, Sir, quest, father, fellows · What happens: tell, swear, seek, endure, not find, learn · To what, where: ye, mother, great oath, Lancelot, Sir, tidings · 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, Sir, quest, father), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 tell	advmod
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 tell	iobj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	conj
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 sworn	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sworn	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sworn	cc
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sworn	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 fellows	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 fellows	nmod:poss
18	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 many	nmod
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sworn	aux
20	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 told	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 oath	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 oath	amod
23	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sworn	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 seek	mark
25	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 oath	acl
26	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Lancelot	nmod:desc
27	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 seek	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 endure	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 endure	cc
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 quest	nmod:poss
31	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 endure	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 endure	aux
33	endure	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 years	nummod
35	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 found	obl:unmarked
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 more	cc
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 years	conj
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 found	det
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 found	nsubj
40	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 endure	advcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 found	obj
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 found	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 learn	punct
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 learn	cc
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 learn	aux
46	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
47	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	48 tidings	det
48	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 learn	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 tidings	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	may	I		ye	still	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	Sir		my mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
3	swear	past · perfect	Sir	a great oath			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality
4	seek	to-infinitive	Sir not said here	Lancelot Sir			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lancelot=Theme
5	endure	should	fellows's quest				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not find	past	father	Sir		year	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
7	learn	could	I not said here	no tidings of Sir			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=Topic
8	quest		fellows = fellow				nom quest «cognition 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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 30

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 30