Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 68
And when ye come to the king, ere ye tell him aught beside, say that ye have seen and have spoken with us; and trow me, without fail, ye shall be well received!"
Who acts: ye · What happens: come, tell, say, see, speak, trow · To what, where: aught, king, ye, me · 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 (ye), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 come | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 come | advmod |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 9 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 11 tell | advmod |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 11 tell | obj |
| 14 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 say | mark |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beside | punct |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tell | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 say | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 spoken | cc |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 spoken | aux |
| 23 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 seen | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 spoken | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 trow | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 trow | cc |
| 28 | trow | trow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 trow | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 received | punct |
| 31 | without | without | ADP | _ | 32 fail | case |
| 32 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 received | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fail | punct |
| 34 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 received | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 received | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 received | aux:pass |
| 37 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 received | advmod |
| 38 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 trow | advcl |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | ye | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | ye | aught | king | ere property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient aught=Topic | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | ye not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see | present · perfect · passive | ye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | present · perfect | with us | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with we=Co-Agent | |||||
| 6 | trow | infinitive | ye not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | receive | shall · passive | ye | without fail; well property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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