Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 33
Now have I told ye the truth concerning these two roads, and what may befall ye therein; for the third, it leadeth hereby to the sea coast; I know not what I may say more."
Who acts: I, road · What happens: tell, concern, befall, lead, not know, say · To what, where: truth, ye, two roads, more · 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 (I, road), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 truth | det |
| 7 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 8 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 told | advcl |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 roads | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 roads | nummod |
| 11 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 concerning | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 befall | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 befall | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 befall | obj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 befall | aux |
| 16 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | conj |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 befall | obj |
| 18 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 16 befall | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 third | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 third | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 third | det |
| 22 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 befall | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 leadeth | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 leadeth | nsubj |
| 25 | leadeth | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 third | acl:relcl |
| 26 | hereby | hereby | ADV | _ | 25 leadeth | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 coast | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 coast | det |
| 29 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 coast | compound |
| 30 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leadeth | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 know | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 know | nsubj |
| 33 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | ccomp |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 know | advmod |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 38 say | obj |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 say | nsubj |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 say | aux |
| 38 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 know | ccomp |
| 39 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 say | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 know | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | I | the truth | ye | now | tree rules | ||
| 2 | concern | gerund | I not said here | this two roads | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus road=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | befall | may | I not said here | ye | what obj; therein property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lead | present | road | to the sea coast; hereby property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to coast=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | may | I | more | what obj | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme more=Manner |
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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