Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 69
The Moor spake: "'Tis well said--God reward ye for this courtesy; but were it your will and pleasing to ye that I knew the names of ye two then i'sooth were I the blither withal!"
Who acts: Tis, God, Moor spake · What happens: say, reward, please, know, be, name · To what, where: ye, names · 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 (Tis, God, Moor spake), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spake | det |
| 2 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spake | compound |
| 3 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 withal | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advmod |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spake | conj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 reward | punct |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 reward | nsubj |
| 12 | reward | reward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 reward | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 courtesy | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 courtesy | det |
| 16 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reward | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 will | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 will | cc |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 will | cop |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 will | nsubj |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 will | nmod:poss |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 spake | acl:relcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 i'sooth | cc |
| 24 | pleasing | please | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 i'sooth | csubj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 ye | case |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 pleasing | obl |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 knew | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 knew | nsubj |
| 29 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 pleasing | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 names | det |
| 31 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 knew | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 ye | case |
| 33 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 names | nmod |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 ye | appos |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 i'sooth | advmod |
| 36 | i'sooth | i'sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 will | conj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 withal | cop |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 withal | nsubj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 withal | det |
| 40 | blither | blither | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 withal | amod |
| 41 | withal | withal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 41 withal | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 withal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express in a quote | past | Tis | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | reward in a quote | present | God | ye | for this courtesy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ye=Theme for courtesy=Attribute | |||
| 3 | please in a quote | gerund | to ye | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | past | Tis | the names of ye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | the Moor spake | I nsubj; withal property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | name in a quote | ye | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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