Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 21
Therefore tarry over night with us, since ye may not achieve your goal this day; and I will make ready my weapons as best I may; I must needs be better healed ere I have strength to ride whither I would.
Who acts: ye, I · What happens: not achieve, make, need, be, heal, have · To what, where: goal, weapons, strength
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 (ye, 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 tarry | advmod |
| 2 | tarry | tarry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tarry | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 tarry | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 achieve | punct |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 achieve | mark |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 achieve | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 achieve | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 achieve | advmod |
| 12 | achieve | achieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tarry | parataxis |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 goal | nmod:poss |
| 14 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 achieve | obj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 achieve | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 make | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | aux |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tarry | conj |
| 22 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 make | xcomp |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 24 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 best | advmod |
| 26 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 make | parataxis |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 may | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 best | ccomp |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 needs | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 needs | nsubj |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 needs | aux |
| 32 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tarry | conj |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 better | cop |
| 34 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 needs | xcomp |
| 35 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 better | advcl |
| 36 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 35 healed | advmod |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 have | nsubj |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 healed | parataxis |
| 39 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 have | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 ride | mark |
| 41 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 strength | acl |
| 42 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 44 would | advmod |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 would | nsubj |
| 44 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 ride | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tarry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not achieve | may | ye | your goal | day | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | make | future | I | my weapons | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Product | |||
| 3 | need | must | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is not said to happen | infinitive | I not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | heal | participle | I not said here | ere property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | have | present | I | strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 7 | ride | to-infinitive | I not said here | strength not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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