Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 102
Now do I conjure ye all here present, by God, our Righteous Father (so spake the lord of the castle) that ye speak, and make known to me the whole truth; fain would I hear how he came by his death, my dear son, who lieth here, and for whom my heart doth sorely grieve."
Who acts: I, lord, heart, dear son · What happens: conjure, speak, make, know, hear, come · To what, where: ye, lord, whole truth, me · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, lord, heart, dear son), 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 | 4 conjure | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 conjure | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 conjure | nsubj |
| 4 | conjure | conjure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 conjure | obj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 ye | det |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 conjure | advmod |
| 8 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 here | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 God | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 God | case |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 conjure | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Father | punct |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Righteous | righteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Father | amod |
| 15 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 God | appos |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 spake | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 spake | advmod |
| 18 | spake | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 conjure | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lord | det |
| 20 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spake | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 castle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lord | nmod |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 lord | punct |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 speak | nsubj |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 speak | nsubj |
| 27 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 lord | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 make | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 make | cc |
| 30 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 spake | conj |
| 31 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 make | xcomp |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 me | case |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 known | obl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 truth | det |
| 35 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 truth | amod |
| 36 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 known | obj |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 hear | punct |
| 38 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 hear | reparandum |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 hear | aux |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 hear | nsubj |
| 41 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 conjure | parataxis |
| 42 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 44 came | advmod |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 came | nsubj |
| 44 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 hear | advcl |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 death | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 death | nmod:poss |
| 47 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 came | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 son | punct |
| 49 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 son | nmod:poss |
| 50 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 son | amod |
| 51 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 death | appos |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 lieth | punct |
| 53 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 54 lieth | nsubj |
| 54 | lieth | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 son | acl:relcl |
| 55 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 54 lieth | advmod |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 whom | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 whom | cc |
| 58 | for | for | ADP | _ | 59 whom | case |
| 59 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 came | obl |
| 60 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 61 heart | nmod:poss |
| 61 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 doth | nsubj |
| 62 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 whom | acl:relcl |
| 63 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 64 grieve | advmod |
| 64 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 62 doth | xcomp |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 conjure | punct |
| 66 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 conjure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conjure | present · do-support | I | ye | here | now | God obj | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ye=Beneficiary god=Result | |
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | I not said here | the lord of the castle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | infinitive | the lord of the castle | ye nsubj | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | know | participle | I not said here | the whole truth | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | hear | would | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | come | past | heart | by heart's death; whom obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by death=Location | ||||
| 8 | lie | present | my dear son | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | do | present | my heart | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | grieve | infinitive | my heart not said here | sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 11 | die | heart | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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