Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 4
Ye be both rash and foolish, and one of the twain, ye, or he, shall lose by it, and from that do I dissent, an ye show me not better reason therefore."
Who acts: Ye, Tis, I · What happens: be, lose, dissent, show · To what, where: better reason, me
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 (Ye, Tis, I), 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 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 rash | nsubj |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rash | cop |
| 3 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 4 rash | cc:preconj |
| 4 | rash | rash | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 foolish | cc |
| 6 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rash | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 one | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 rash | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 twain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 twain | det |
| 12 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ye | punct |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 rash | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lose | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 lose | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lose | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 he | punct |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 lose | aux |
| 20 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rash | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lose | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dissent | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dissent | cc |
| 25 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 do | nsubj |
| 27 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 dissent | aux |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 dissent | nsubj |
| 29 | dissent | dissent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rash | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 show | punct |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 show | det |
| 32 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 show | nsubj |
| 33 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 dissent | conj |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 show | iobj |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 better | advmod |
| 36 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 reason | amod |
| 37 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 show | obj |
| 38 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 37 reason | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rash | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | Ye | one of the twain conj; ye conj; rash property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Ye not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | lose | shall | Tis | by twain | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | dissent | present · do-support | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | show | infinitive | ye | better reason | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient reason=Topic |
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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