Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 25
I have no mind to abide here behind ye, nor to hinder ye and cause ye to delay when ye would fain ride hence, as I know right well!
Who acts: I, ye · What happens: have, abide, hinder, cause, delay, fain · To what, where: mind, ye
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 mind | det |
| 4 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 abide | mark |
| 6 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 mind | acl |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 abide | advmod |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 ye | case |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 abide | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hinder | punct |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 hinder | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hinder | mark |
| 13 | hinder | hinder | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 hinder | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cause | cc |
| 16 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 hinder | conj |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 cause | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 delay | mark |
| 19 | delay | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 cause | xcomp |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 fain | advmod |
| 21 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 fain | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fain | aux |
| 23 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 delay | ccomp |
| 24 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fain | xcomp |
| 25 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 24 ride | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 know | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 know | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 know | nsubj |
| 29 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 ride | parataxis |
| 30 | right | right | ADV | _ | 31 well | advmod |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 know | advmod |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | no mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | abide | to-infinitive | I not said here | no mind not said here | ye; here | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hinder | to-infinitive | ye | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ye=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cause | infinitive | ye | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | delay | to-infinitive | ye not said here | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | fain | would | ye | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | ride | infinitive | ye not said here | hence property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | know | present | I | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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