Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 61
Now Sir Knight do our bidding, for your own honour's sake, and ride ye to court; grant us this grace, for ere ye have abode long time there I hope that ye shall behold your father or receive tidings of him.
Who acts: Sir, ye, I, that, our, your · What happens: do, ride, grant, abide, hope, behold · To what, where: bidding, court, grace, us, ye, father · 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 (Sir, ye, I, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 do | advmod |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sir | flat |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ride | advcl |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sake | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sake | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 honour | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 honour | amod |
| 11 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sake | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 honour | case |
| 13 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ride | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ride | cc |
| 16 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 ride | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ride | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 grant | punct |
| 21 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ride | conj |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 grant | obj |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 grace | det |
| 24 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grant | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 abode | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 ere | case |
| 27 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 30 abode | obl |
| 28 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 abode | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 abode | aux |
| 30 | abode | abide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 hope | advcl |
| 31 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 time | amod |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 abode | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 abode | advmod |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 hope | nsubj |
| 35 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 grant | parataxis |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 behold | nsubj |
| 37 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 behold | nsubj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 behold | aux |
| 39 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 hope | ccomp |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 father | nmod:poss |
| 41 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 behold | obj |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 receive | cc |
| 43 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 behold | conj |
| 44 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 receive | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 tidings | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Sir | our bidding | now | for your own honour's sake | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | ride | present | ye | court | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to court=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | grant | infinitive | ye not said here | this grace | us | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent we=Goal grace=Theme | |||
| 4 | abide | present · perfect · passive | ye | there | time | tree rules | |||
| 5 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | behold | shall | that | your father | ye nsubj | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | receive | infinitive | that not said here | tidings of Sir | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=Theme | ||||
| 8 | bid | our | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | honour | your | nom honour «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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