Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 79
But since it hath so befallen, think ye what may best profit ye, and abide overnight with me, here within; for an ye depart hence I know not where ye may find shelter.
Who acts: mischief, you, ye, I · What happens: have, think, profit, abide, depart, not know · To what, where: ye, shelter · 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 (mischief, you, ye, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 think | cc |
| 2 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 4 hath | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hath | nsubj |
| 4 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 befallen | advmod |
| 6 | befallen | befallen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hath | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hath | punct |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 think | obj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 profit | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 profit | aux |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 profit | amod |
| 13 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 think | obl |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 profit | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 abide | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 abide | cc |
| 17 | abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | parataxis |
| 18 | overnight | overnight | ADV | _ | 17 abide | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 abide | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 here | punct |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 abide | advmod |
| 23 | within | within | ADP | _ | 17 abide | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 depart | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 depart | mark |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 depart | det |
| 27 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 depart | nsubj |
| 28 | depart | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | parataxis |
| 29 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 28 depart | advmod |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 know | nsubj |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 depart | parataxis |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 know | advmod |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 find | advmod |
| 34 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 find | nsubj |
| 35 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 find | aux |
| 36 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 know | ccomp |
| 37 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 find | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | mischief | befallen property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | ye | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | profit | may | what nsubj; ye nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | abide | infinitive | here | with me; overnight property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | depart | present | ye | hence property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | find | may | ye | shelter | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Topic |
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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