Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 36
An ye will, I will alight and meet ye afoot, or ye may mount your steed again, by covenant that ye flee not, nor escape, but abide your fortune."
Who acts: I, ye · What happens: alight, meet, mount, not flee, escape, abide · To what, where: ye, steed, covenant, fortune
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, ye), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 will | det |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 will | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 alight | aux |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 will | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 alight | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 alight | aux |
| 7 | alight | alight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 meet | cc |
| 9 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 alight | conj |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 meet | obj |
| 11 | afoot | afoot | ADV | _ | 9 meet | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mount | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 mount | cc |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 mount | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 mount | aux |
| 16 | mount | mount | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 alight | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 steed | nmod:poss |
| 18 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mount | obj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 mount | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 covenant | punct |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 covenant | case |
| 22 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mount | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 flee | obj |
| 24 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 flee | nsubj |
| 25 | flee | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 covenant | acl:relcl |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 flee | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 escape | punct |
| 28 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 29 escape | cc |
| 29 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 alight | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 abide | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 abide | cc |
| 32 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 escape | conj |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 34 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 abide | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 alight | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 alight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | meet | infinitive | I not said here | ye | afoot property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | mount | may | ye | your steed | again | by covenant | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent steed=Theme by covenant=Destination | ||
| 4 | not flee | present | ye | covenant | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | escape | infinitive | I not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | abide | infinitive | I not said here | your fortune | tree rules |
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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