Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 82
A long tale is ill to hear, I will weary ye not, but see that naught be lacking to your ease.
Who acts: long tale, I, naught · What happens: be, hear, not weary, see, lack · To what, where: 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long tale, I, naught), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tale | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tale | amod |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ill | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ill | cop |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hear | mark |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ill | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 weary | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 weary | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 weary | aux |
| 11 | weary | weary | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ill | conj |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 weary | obj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 weary | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 weary | conj |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 naught | det |
| 18 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 20 lacking | nsubj |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 lacking | aux |
| 20 | lacking | lack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 see | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 ease | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ease | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lacking | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a long tale | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | a long tale not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not weary | future | I | ye | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ye=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | lack | infinitive · progressive | naught | to your ease | 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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