Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 39
And do the hermit to wit how matters have gone with ye, that he may tell me the truth thereof if peradventure I too come hither, and the knight shall go with ye, and God keep ye both since we be now come to this point.
Who acts: you, matters, hermit, I, knight, God · What happens: do, wit, go, tell, come, keep · To what, where: hermit, truth, me, ye, point · 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 (you, matters, hermit, I), 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 | _ | 2 do | cc |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hermit | det |
| 4 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 do | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wit | mark |
| 6 | wit | wit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 do | advcl |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 gone | advmod |
| 8 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gone | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 gone | aux |
| 10 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 wit | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 ye | case |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 gone | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 tell | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gone | parataxis |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 truth | det |
| 20 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obj |
| 21 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 17 tell | advmod |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 peradventure | mark |
| 23 | peradventure | peradventure | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 come | nsubj |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | ccomp |
| 27 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 go | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 knight | det |
| 31 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 go | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 go | aux |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 come | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 ye | case |
| 35 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 go | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 keep | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 keep | cc |
| 38 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 keep | nsubj |
| 39 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | parataxis |
| 40 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 keep | obj |
| 41 | both | both | ADV | _ | 39 keep | advmod |
| 42 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 46 come | mark |
| 43 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 come | nsubj |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 come | aux |
| 45 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 come | advmod |
| 46 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 keep | advcl |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 point | case |
| 48 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 point | det |
| 49 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 come | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | the hermit | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermit=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wit | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | present · perfect | matters | with ye | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with ye=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | may | hermit | the truth | me | thereof property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | come | present | I | hither, peradventure property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | shall | the knight | with ye | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with ye=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | keep | present | God | ye | both property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme | |||
| 8 | come | infinitive | we | this point | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to point=Initial_Location |
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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