Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 82
The Moor spake: "Since that ye will it so, I will at your bidding forbear, otherwise might I rue it!
Who acts: ye · What happens: rue · To what, where: spake, Moor spake
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 | 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 | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 that | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 that | punct |
| 6 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 spake | nmod |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 will | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 will | aux |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 will | nsubj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 will | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 will | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 will | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 that | aux |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 forbear | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 forbear | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 forbear | compound |
| 18 | forbear | forbear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 will | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rue | punct |
| 20 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 23 rue | advmod |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 rue | aux |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 rue | nsubj |
| 23 | rue | rue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 forbear | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rue | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rue in a quote | might | ye | spake = speak | otherwise property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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