Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 12
But whatsoe'er befall me since that I have heard from our host, that good man, that my father in sooth rode that way I shall follow hard after, if so be that I may but cross over, and will but await tomorrow's dawn.
Who acts: whatsoe'er, I, father · What happens: befall, hear, ride, follow, cross over, await · To what, where: me, host, way
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whatsoe'er, I, father), 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 | _ | 3 befall | cc |
| 2 | whatsoe'er | whatsoe'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 befall | nsubj |
| 3 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 befall | obj |
| 5 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 9 heard | mark |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 heard | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 befall | parataxis |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 host | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 host | nmod:poss |
| 12 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 man | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 host | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rode | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 rode | mark |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rode | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sooth | case |
| 22 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 father | nmod |
| 23 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rode | obj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 follow | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 follow | aux |
| 28 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 way | acl:relcl |
| 29 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 after | advmod |
| 30 | after | after | ADV | _ | 28 follow | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 cross | punct |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 cross | mark |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 cross | advmod |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 may | cop |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 may | mark |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 may | nsubj |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 cross | aux |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 cross | cc |
| 39 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 rode | conj |
| 40 | over | over | ADV | _ | 39 cross | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 await | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 await | cc |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 await | aux |
| 44 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 await | cc |
| 45 | await | await | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 cross | conj |
| 46 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 dawn | nmod:poss |
| 47 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 46 tomorrow | case |
| 48 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 await | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 befall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | infinitive | whatsoe'er | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | present · perfect | I | our host and that good man | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from host=Source | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | my father in sooth | that way | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 4 | follow | shall | I | that way not said here | after property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 5 | cross over | may | my father in sooth not said here | over property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | await | future | my father in sooth not said here | dawn | 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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