Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 19

Follow ye our counsel; 'tis now high day, did ye come in safety to the ships it would be o'er late ere ye came to the other side."

Who acts: you, ye, counsel · What happens: follow, come, be · To what, where: ye, safety, ships

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 (you, ye, counsel), 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	Follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 Follow	obj
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 counsel	nmod:poss
4	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Follow	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
7	tis	tis	ADV	_	10 day	advmod
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 day	advmod
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
13	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Follow	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 safety	case
16	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 ships	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ships	det
19	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	obl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 side	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 side	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 side	cop
23	o'er	o'er	ADV	_	31 side	advmod
24	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 came	advmod
25	ere	ere	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
26	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 side	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 side	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 side	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 side	amod
31	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ships	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Follow	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Follow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	imperative	you not said here	ye			our counsel obj	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent ye=Theme counsel=Attribute
2	come	past · do-support	ye		safety	day	to the ships	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ship=Initial_Location
3	come	past	ye				ere, late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	would	counsel	the ships not said here			to the other side; o'er property	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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 19