Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 65
And if so be that men understand ye not then return straightway to this place, and follow the road which I shall take, swiftly, and with no delay.
Who acts: men, ye, road · What happens: not be, return, follow, take · To what, where: straightway, place, road
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 (men, ye, road), 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 | _ | 11 return | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 understand | mark |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 understand | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 understand | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 understand | mark |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 understand | nsubj |
| 7 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 return | advcl |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 return | nsubj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 understand | advmod |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 return | advmod |
| 11 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 return | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 return | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 follow | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 follow | cc |
| 18 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 return | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 road | det |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 follow | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 take | nsubj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 take | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | aux |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 road | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 swiftly | punct |
| 26 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 18 follow | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 delay | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 delay | cc |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 delay | case |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 delay | det |
| 31 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 follow | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | infinitive | men | understand property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | infinitive | ye | straightway | this place | then | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent straightway=Theme to place=Destination | ||
| 3 | follow | infinitive | the road | no delay parataxis; swiftly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | shall | the road | I nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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