Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 64
When ye come to the crossing, pray that men tell ye the truth, and ask for the sea-coast withal, wherever ye come.
Who acts: ye, men, you · What happens: come, pray, tell, ask · To what, where: crossing, truth, ye · 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 (ye, men, you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 come | advmod |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ask | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 crossing | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crossing | det |
| 6 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pray | punct |
| 8 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pray | advcl |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 truth | det |
| 14 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ask | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ask | cc |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 coast | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 coast | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coast | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 sea | punct |
| 22 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ask | obl |
| 23 | withal | withal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ask | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 25 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 come | advmod |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 come | nsubj |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ask | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | ye | the crossing | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to crossing=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | ye not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | men | the truth | ye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient truth=Topic | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | for the sea coast; withal property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | come | present | ye | wherever property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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