Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 27
An it so befall that ye fare thitherward ye shall find such a marvel that would ye dare the venture, and amend the wrong it shall cost ye life and limb, that do I tell ye here.
Who acts: life, ye, marvel, that · What happens: befall, fare, find, dare, amend, cost · To what, where: thitherward, marvel, venture, wrong, life, ye · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, ye, marvel, that), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 befall | det |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 befall | nsubj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 befall | advmod |
| 4 | befall | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 fare | mark |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 fare | nsubj |
| 7 | fare | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 befall | advcl |
| 8 | thitherward | thitherward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fare | obj |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thitherward | acl:relcl |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 marvel | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 marvel | det |
| 14 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 dare | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 dare | aux |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 dare | nsubj |
| 18 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 marvel | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 venture | det |
| 20 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dare | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 amend | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 amend | cc |
| 23 | amend | amend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 4 befall | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wrong | det |
| 25 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 amend | obj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 cost | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 cost | aux |
| 28 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 amend | conj |
| 29 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 cost | iobj |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cost | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 limb | cc |
| 32 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 life | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 tell | punct |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 tell | nsubj |
| 35 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 tell | aux |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 tell | nsubj |
| 37 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 befall | conj |
| 38 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 tell | iobj |
| 39 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 tell | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 befall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | present | life | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fare | present | ye | thitherward | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | shall | ye | such marvel | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marvel=Topic | ||||
| 4 | dare | would | such marvel | the venture | ye nsubj | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venture=Recipient | |||
| 5 | amend | present | life not said here | the wrong | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | cost | shall | life | life and limb | ye | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme ye=Beneficiary life=Value | |||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | present · do-support | that | ye | here | I nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
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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