Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 106

They said that they would fain speak with ye, and they prayed me straitly, the twain of them, that I should come hither and tell ye this."

Who acts: steeds, I · What happens: say, fain, speak, pray, come, tell · To what, where: me, this, 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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steeds, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 fain	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fain	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fain	aux
6	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fain	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 ye	case
9	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 speak	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 prayed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 prayed	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 prayed	nsubj
13	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 prayed	obj
15	straitly	straitly	ADV	_	13 prayed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 twain	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 twain	det
18	twain	twain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 prayed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 twain	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 come	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 come	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 prayed	parataxis
26	hither	hither	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tell	cc
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	conj
29	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 tell	iobj
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 tell	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	steeds = steed				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fain	would	steeds = steed				tree rules
3	speak speech: other	infinitive	steeds = steed not said here			with ye	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ye=Co-Agent
4	pray	past	steeds = steed	me		the twain of soot obl; straitly property	tree rules
5	come	should	I			hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here	this	ye		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient this=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 106

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 106