Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 67

Then quoth Sir Lancelot: "Knight, an ye be in any need, when ye come into Arthur's land,--I ween 'tis all unknown to ye,--speak but of us twain whom ye see here and men shall do ye naught but honour and courtesy, where'er ye come, in any place.

Who acts: you, ye, Moor, men · What happens: quoth, be, come, ween, speak, see · To what, where: Lancelot, need, land, twain, ye, where'er · 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, Moor, men), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 quoth	advmod
2	quoth	quoth	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Lancelot	nmod:desc
4	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 quoth	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Knight	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Knight	punct
7	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quoth	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 need	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 need	det
10	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 need	nsubj
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 need	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 need	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 need	det
14	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Knight	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 come	advmod
17	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 come	nsubj
18	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 need	advcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 land	case
20	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 land	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Arthur	case
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ween	punct
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 ween	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ween	nsubj
26	ween	ween	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Knight	conj
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 unknown	punct
28	tis	tis	ADP	_	30 unknown	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 unknown	det
30	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ween	advcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 ye	case
32	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 unknown	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 speak	punct
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 speak	punct
35	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 quoth	conj
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 us	cc
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 us	case
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 speak	obl
39	twain	twain	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 us	appos
40	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 see	obj
41	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	42 see	nsubj
42	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 twain	acl:relcl
43	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 see	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 do	cc
45	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 do	nsubj
46	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 do	aux
47	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 see	conj
48	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	47 do	obj
49	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	47 do	obj
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 honour	cc
51	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 naught	conj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 courtesy	cc
53	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 naught	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 where'er	punct
55	where'er	where'er	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 naught	conj
56	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	57 come	nsubj
57	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 where'er	acl:relcl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 place	punct
59	in	in	ADP	_	61 place	case
60	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	61 place	det
61	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 come	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 quoth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quoth	imperative	you not said here	Lancelot Sir		then	Knight and a need obl	tree rules
2	is in a quote	infinitive	ye		a need			tree rules
3	come in a quote	present	ye		Arthur's land			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_Location
4	ween in a quote	present	Moor					tree rules
5	speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				of us	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see in a quote	present	ye	twain	here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
7	do in a quote	shall	men	ye			naught honour courtesy where'er obj	tree rules
8	come in a quote	present	ye	where'er not said here	any place			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location where'er=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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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 67