Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 58
Tell him, and give him to wit who ye be, and whence ye come, and the quest upon which ye ride; he will not let ye depart ere we come and bring with us your father, an God prosper us.
Who acts: you, ye, king, we, God · What happens: tell, give, wit, be, come, ride · To what, where: king, quest, ye, ere, father, us · 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 (you, ye, king, we), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 give | cc |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 wit | case |
| 8 | wit | wit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | xcomp |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 wit | ccomp |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 who | nsubj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 who | cop |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 come | cc |
| 14 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 come | advmod |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 come | nsubj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 quest | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 quest | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 quest | det |
| 20 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 ride | obl |
| 23 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 ride | nsubj |
| 24 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 quest | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 let | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 let | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 let | advmod |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | parataxis |
| 30 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 let | obj |
| 31 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 let | xcomp |
| 32 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 depart | obj |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 come | nsubj |
| 34 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 ere | acl:relcl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bring | cc |
| 36 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 let | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 us | case |
| 38 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 bring | obl |
| 39 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 father | nmod:poss |
| 40 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bring | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 God | punct |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 God | det |
| 43 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 father | appos |
| 44 | prosper | prosper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 God | acl |
| 45 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 prosper | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wit | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | ye | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | come | present | ye | the quest | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | ride | present | ye | upon the quest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | not let | future | king | ye | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | depart | infinitive | ye not said here | ere | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ere=Initial_Location | ||||
| 9 | come | present | we | ere not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ere=Theme | ||||
| 10 | bring | present | king not said here | your father | with us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument father=Destination | |||
| 11 | prosper | infinitive | a God not said here | us | tree rules |
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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