Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 36
Ye shall ride straightway whichever road ye will, otherwise shall we lose the knights who were lately here, they shall not have ridden far as yet.
Who acts: Ye, we, knights, needs · What happens: ride, lose, be, not ride · To what, where: straightway road, knights
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 (Ye, we, knights, needs), 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 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 ride | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ride | aux |
| 3 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | straightway | straightway | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 road | amod |
| 5 | whichever | whichever | DET | PronType=Rel | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ride | obj |
| 7 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 will | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ride | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lose | punct |
| 10 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 13 lose | advmod |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 lose | aux |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 lose | nsubj |
| 13 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ride | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 knights | det |
| 15 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lose | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 here | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 here | cop |
| 18 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 19 here | advmod |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 knights | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ridden | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ridden | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 ridden | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 ridden | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ridden | aux |
| 25 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ride | conj |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 ridden | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 yet | case |
| 28 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 26 far | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | shall | Ye | whichever straightway road | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | shall | we | the knights | otherwise property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is | past | the knights | here, lately property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not ride | shall · perfect | needs = need | yet | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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