Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 59
Now say whither ye will betake ye, and send me what road ye will; I will dare the venture, be it never so perilous.
Who acts: you, ye, I · What happens: say, betake, send, dare, be · To what, where: ye, me, venture · 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, ye, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 say | advmod |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 betake | advmod |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 betake | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 betake | aux |
| 6 | betake | betake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 say | ccomp |
| 7 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 betake | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 send | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 send | cc |
| 10 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 send | iobj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 send | obj |
| 13 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 will | nsubj |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 will | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 dare | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 dare | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 dare | aux |
| 19 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 say | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 venture | det |
| 21 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dare | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 be | punct |
| 23 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 dare | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 be | obj |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 perilous | advmod |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 perilous | advmod |
| 27 | perilous | perilous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dare | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | betake | future | ye | ye | whither property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | send | infinitive | you not said here | me | what obj | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination what=Theme | |||
| 4 | dare | future | I | the venture | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venture=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | be | infinitive | I not said here | venture | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
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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