Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 63
Now promise us this; we shall seek your father, and may we find him, and God give us honour in our quest, then will we return as swiftly as may be, and rejoice ye and the king!"
Who acts: you, we, God, our · What happens: promise, seek, find, give, return, be · To what, where: this, us, father, master, honour, quest
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, we, God, our), 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 | 2 promise | advmod |
| 2 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 promise | iobj |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 promise | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 seek | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 seek | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 seek | aux |
| 8 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promise | conj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seek | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seek | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 give | nsubj |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 promise | conj |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 quest | case |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 quest | nmod:poss |
| 25 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 return | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 return | advmod |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 return | aux |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 return | nsubj |
| 30 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promise | parataxis |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 35 be | cc |
| 32 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 31 as | fixed |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 as | fixed |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 be | aux |
| 35 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 return | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 rejoice | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 rejoice | cc |
| 38 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 promise | conj |
| 39 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 rejoice | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 king | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 king | det |
| 42 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ye | conj |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 promise | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | imperative | you not said here | this | us | now | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent we=Goal this=Theme | ||
| 2 | seek | shall | we | your father | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | may | we | master | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | give | present | God | honour | us | our quest | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient honour=Theme | ||
| 5 | return | future | we | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | be | may | we not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | rejoice | infinitive | you not said here | ye the king | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | quest | our | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: 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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