Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 53
And his mind is to see and speak with them; may we by any means persuade those noble knights we shall return straightway to the king's court, an it be so that they will ride with us (further will we not vaunt ourselves, 'tis of our good will, and their pleasure), thereby shall the king be the more honoured.
Who acts: mind, we, knight, king, man · What happens: be, speak, mean, persuade, return, ride · To what, where: noble knights, straightway, court, ourselves · 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 (mind, we, knight, king), 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 | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mind | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 speak | cc |
| 8 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 see | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 speak | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 means | aux |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 means | nsubj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 any | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 we | obl |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | parataxis |
| 17 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 means | ccomp |
| 18 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 knights | det |
| 19 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 knights | amod |
| 20 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 persuade | obj |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 return | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 return | aux |
| 23 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 knights | acl:relcl |
| 24 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 return | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 court | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 court | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 king | case |
| 29 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 return | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 it | punct |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 it | det |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 persuade | obl |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 it | cop |
| 34 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 38 ride | mark |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 so | fixed |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 ride | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 ride | aux |
| 38 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 be | advcl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 us | case |
| 40 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 ride | obl |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 vaunt | punct |
| 42 | further | further | ADV | _ | 46 vaunt | advmod |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 vaunt | aux |
| 44 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 vaunt | nsubj |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 vaunt | advmod |
| 46 | vaunt | vaunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 ride | conj |
| 47 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 46 vaunt | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 tis | punct |
| 49 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 tis | punct |
| 50 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 vaunt | conj |
| 51 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 54 will | mark |
| 52 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 good | nmod:poss |
| 53 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 will | obl |
| 54 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 tis | acl:relcl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 pleasure | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 pleasure | cc |
| 57 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 58 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 vaunt | parataxis |
| 59 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 58 pleasure | punct |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 honoured | punct |
| 61 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 68 honoured | advmod |
| 62 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 68 honoured | aux |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 king | det |
| 64 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 honoured | nsubj |
| 65 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 68 honoured | cop |
| 66 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 honoured | det |
| 67 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 68 honoured | advmod |
| 68 | honoured | honoured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 vaunt | conj |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | man's mind | see property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | man's mind not said here | with knight | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | may | we | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | persuade | infinitive | that noble knights | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Patient | |||||
| 5 | return | shall | we | straightway | the king's court | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent straightway=Theme to court=Destination | |||
| 6 | is a | infinitive | straightway | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | ride | future | knight | with us | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | not vaunt | future | we | ourselves | tis conj; knight's pleasure parataxis; further property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | is | shall | the king | honoured, thereby property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | mind | man | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | please | knight | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: 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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