Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 18
But the good knight Sir Gariët said, "Sir Knight ye will do better to abide than to depart in this haste, in short while shall ye have trouble an ye seek your father.
Who acts: good knight, Knight, ye · What happens: say, do, abide, depart, have, seek · To what, where: haste, trouble, father · 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 (good knight, Knight, ye), 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 | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knight | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knight | amod |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knight | appos |
| 6 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sir | flat |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 10 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Knight | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 do | nsubj |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 do | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 abide | mark |
| 17 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 better | advcl |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 depart | mark |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 depart | mark |
| 20 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 abide | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 haste | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 haste | det |
| 23 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 depart | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 short | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 short | case |
| 26 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 do | parataxis |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 have | mark |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 have | aux |
| 29 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 have | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 short | advcl |
| 31 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obj |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 seek | det |
| 33 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 seek | nsubj |
| 34 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 trouble | conj |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 father | nmod:poss |
| 36 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 seek | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the good knight | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | Knight Sir | ye nsubj; good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | abide in a quote | to-infinitive | Knight Sir not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | depart in a quote | to-infinitive | Knight Sir not said here | this haste | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | shall | ye | trouble | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient | ||||
| 6 | seek in a quote | infinitive | ye | your father | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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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