Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 37
And if it be that ye find them, then I charge and conjure ye, by my will and your valour, that if ye may, ye shall bring them with ye and return hither to this place.
Who acts: road, I, ye · What happens: be, charge, conjure, bring, return · To what, where: ye, needs
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, I, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 charge | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 find | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 find | nsubj |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 charge | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 charge | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 charge | nsubj |
| 12 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 conjure | cc |
| 14 | conjure | conjure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 charge | conj |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 conjure | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 valour | punct |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 valour | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 valour | nmod:poss |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 valour | aux |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 valour | cc |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 valour | nmod:poss |
| 22 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 charge | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 bring | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 bring | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 may | mark |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 may | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 bring | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 may | punct |
| 29 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 bring | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 bring | aux |
| 31 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 charge | advcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 bring | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 ye | case |
| 34 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 bring | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 return | cc |
| 36 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 bring | conj |
| 37 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 36 return | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 place | case |
| 39 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 place | det |
| 40 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 return | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 charge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | road | ye nsubj; needs = need obj; find property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | charge | present | I | then | by my valour | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by valour=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | conjure | present | I not said here | ye | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Result | ||||
| 4 | bring | shall | ye | needs = need | with ye | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | return | infinitive | ye not said here | to this place result; hither property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |
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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