Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 23
Morien came riding over the sea-sand, and cried with a loud voice shipward: "Ye who be within tell me that which I ask lest it be to your own loss, as also I would fain know for my own profit and rejoicing.
Who acts: Morien, Ye, I, my · What happens: come, ride, cry, be, ask, fain · To what, where: sea sand, me, own loss · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morien, Ye, I, my), 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 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 sand | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sand | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sand | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 sea | punct |
| 8 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 riding | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cried | cc |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 16 | shipward | shipward | ADV | _ | 15 voice | advmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
| 19 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tell | cop |
| 22 | within | within | ADP | _ | 23 tell | mark |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | iobj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 ask | mark |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 ask | obj |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 ask | nsubj |
| 28 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 loss | advcl |
| 29 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 ask | obl |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 loss | cop |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 loss | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 loss | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 loss | amod |
| 35 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tell | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 fain | punct |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 fain | mark |
| 38 | also | also | ADV | _ | 41 fain | advmod |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 fain | nsubj |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 fain | aux |
| 41 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tell | conj |
| 42 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 fain | xcomp |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 profit | case |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 profit | nmod:poss |
| 45 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 profit | amod |
| 46 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 know | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 rejoicing | cc |
| 48 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 profit | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Morien | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ride | gerund | Morien not said here | the sea sand | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sand=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | with a loud voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | infinitive | Ye | me | who nsubj; tell property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | I | your own loss | lest sand | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | infinitive | to your own loss; your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | fain in a quote | would | I | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | know in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | for my own profit and rejoicing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | profit in a quote | my | nom profit «possession 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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