Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 43
And here would I bid ye twain, if ye would part from me in friendship, that ye tell me what ye may know thereof, out and out, by your troth, and therewith end this talk.
Who acts: I, ye, that · What happens: bid, part, tell, know, end · To what, where: ye twain, friendship, me, talk · 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, that), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bid | cc |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 bid | advmod |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bid | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bid | nsubj |
| 5 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 twain | compound |
| 7 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bid | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 part | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 part | mark |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 part | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 part | aux |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bid | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 part | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 friendship | case |
| 16 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 part | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 tell | nsubj |
| 19 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 tell | nsubj |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bid | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | iobj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 know | obj |
| 23 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 know | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 know | aux |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tell | ccomp |
| 26 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 25 know | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 out | punct |
| 28 | out | out | ADV | _ | 25 know | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 out | cc |
| 30 | out | out | ADV | _ | 28 out | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 troth | punct |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 troth | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 troth | nmod:poss |
| 34 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 end | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 end | cc |
| 37 | therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 38 end | advmod |
| 38 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 tell | parataxis |
| 39 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 talk | det |
| 40 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 end | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | would | I | ye twain | here | tree rules | |||
| 2 | part a condition, not said to happen | would | ye | friendship | from me | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | that | me | by your troth; ye nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | know | may | ye | what obj; thereof property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | end | infinitive | this talk | therewith property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality talk=Eventuality |
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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