Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 92

Then said the cruel knight: "For ye, fool and meddler, whether ye be knight or no, will I not stay my hand, nay, rather for your shame, will I chastise her the more; and should ye but speak another word to her I shall thrust ye straightway from your steed with my spear!"

Who acts: ye, I, your · What happens: say, be, not stay, chastise, speak, thrust · To what, where: cruel knight, knight, hand, maiden, word, 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, I, your), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knight	det
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 knight	amod
5	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 stay	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 stay	punct
8	For	for	ADP	_	11 fool	case
9	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 fool	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fool	punct
11	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stay	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 meddler	cc
13	meddler	meddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fool	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knight	punct
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	18 knight	mark
16	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 knight	nsubj
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 knight	cop
18	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fool	conj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 no	cc
20	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	18 knight	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fool	punct
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 stay	aux
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 stay	nsubj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 stay	advmod
25	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hand	nmod:poss
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stay	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 nay	punct
29	nay	nay	INTJ	_	25 stay	discourse
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rather	punct
31	rather	rather	ADV	_	25 stay	advmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 shame	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 shame	nmod:poss
34	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rather	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 chastise	punct
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 chastise	aux
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 chastise	nsubj
38	chastise	chastise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 stay	conj
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 chastise	obj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 more	det
41	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 chastise	advmod
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 speak	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 speak	cc
44	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 speak	aux
45	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	47 speak	nsubj
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 speak	cc
47	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
48	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	49 word	det
49	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 speak	obj
50	to	to	SCONJ	_	54 thrust	mark
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 thrust	nmod:poss
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 thrust	nsubj
53	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 thrust	aux
54	thrust	thrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 speak	advcl
55	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	54 thrust	obj
56	straightway	straightway	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 thrust	obj
57	from	from	ADP	_	59 steed	case
58	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 steed	nmod:poss
59	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 thrust	obl
60	with	with	ADP	_	62 spear	case
61	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 spear	nmod:poss
62	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 steed	nmod
63	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past		the cruel knight		then		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	infinitive	ye	knight				tree rules
3	not stay in a quote	future	I	my hand			for fool ye and meddler and knight	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hand=Location
4	chastise in a quote	future	I	maiden				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	speak speech: other in a quote	should	ye	another word				tree rules
6	thrust in a quote	shall	I	ye	your steed with my spear		maiden nmod:poss; straightway obj	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Destination straightway=Theme
7	shame in a quote		your					nom shame «feeling transitive»: poss=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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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 92