Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 54
But let that tale be, and make known to me the errand upon which ye ride that ye be now come hither.
Who acts: you, tale, ye, that · What happens: let, be, make, know, ride, come · To what, where: tale, errand, me
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 (you, tale, ye, that), 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 | _ | 2 let | cc |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tale | det |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 let | obj |
| 5 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 make | cc |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | conj |
| 9 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 make | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 known | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 errand | det |
| 13 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 known | obl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 ride | obl |
| 16 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 ride | nsubj |
| 17 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 errand | acl:relcl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 come | nsubj |
| 19 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 come | nsubj |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 come | aux |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 come | advmod |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ride | ccomp |
| 23 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | that tale | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | infinitive | that tale not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know | participle | you not said here | the errand | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | ride | present | ye | upon the errand | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come | infinitive | that | now | ye nsubj; hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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