Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 23
The road by which ye came, that do ye know; and the road that runneth straight therefrom that will ye shun, an ye heed my counsel. '
Who acts: road, that, ye · What happens: come, know, run, shun, heed · To what, where: counsel
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, that, 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 | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 know | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 shun | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shun | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shun | nsubj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 runneth | nsubj |
| 17 | runneth | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 road | acl:relcl |
| 18 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 19 therefrom | advmod |
| 19 | therefrom | therefrom | ADV | _ | 17 runneth | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 shun | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 shun | aux |
| 22 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 shun | nsubj |
| 23 | shun | shun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 heed | punct |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 heed | det |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 heed | nsubj |
| 27 | heed | heed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 shun | conj |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 29 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 heed | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the road | which obl; ye nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by which=Location | ||||
| 2 | know | present · do-support | that | ye nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | run | present | the road | therefrom property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shun | future | the road | that nsubj; ye nsubj | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | heed | infinitive | ye | my counsel | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=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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