Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 56
I hope in God that Sir Agloval shall come thither within short space, or that ye shall hear tidings of him; for there come full oft tidings from afar.
Who acts: I, Agloval, that · What happens: hope, come, hear · To what, where: tidings
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, Agloval, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 God | case |
| 4 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hope | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 6 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Agloval | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hope | advcl |
| 10 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 space | case |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 space | amod |
| 13 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hear | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 hear | cc |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 hear | nsubj |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 hear | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hear | aux |
| 19 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hope | conj |
| 20 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hear | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tidings | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 come | advmod |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hope | parataxis |
| 27 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tidings | amod |
| 28 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tidings | amod |
| 29 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 come | vocative |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 afar | case |
| 31 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tidings | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | in God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | come | shall | Agloval Sir | within short space; thither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | shall | that | tidings of Agloval | ye nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | come | participle | there | full oft tidings from afar vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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