Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 55
Now an ye will work wisely, and shun your own harm, ye will mount, and ride to King Arthur's court, and delay not.
Who acts: ye, your · What happens: work, shun, mount, not delay, harm · To what, where: ride, own harm
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, your), 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 | 5 work | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 work | reparandum |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 work | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 work | aux |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | wisely | wisely | ADV | _ | 5 work | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shun | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shun | cc |
| 9 | shun | shun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 work | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 harm | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 harm | amod |
| 12 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shun | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mount | punct |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 mount | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 mount | aux |
| 16 | mount | mount | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 shun | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ride | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ride | cc |
| 19 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 court | case |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Arthur | compound |
| 22 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 court | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Arthur | case |
| 24 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ride | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 delay | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 delay | cc |
| 27 | delay | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 work | conj |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 delay | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | future | ye | ride to King Arthur's court | now | wisely property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | shun | infinitive | ye not said here | your own harm | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent harm=Location | ||||
| 3 | mount | future | ye | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not delay | infinitive | ye not said here | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | harm | your | nom harm «state 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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