Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 55
Now see, Sir Gariët, what counsel ye may find, and how we may so contrive that we cross the water; doubt ye not that an they once behold me and know me they will straightway set sail again and put to sea.
Who acts: you, Sir, we, adventures · What happens: see, find, contrive, cross, not behol, know · To what, where: ye, water, me, set sail · 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 (you, Sir, we, adventures), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 see | advmod |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 4 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 find | nsubj |
| 5 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sir | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 find | obj |
| 8 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | nsubj |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 contrive | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 contrive | cc |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 contrive | advmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 contrive | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 contrive | aux |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 contrive | advmod |
| 18 | contrive | contrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 cross | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 cross | nsubj |
| 21 | cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 contrive | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cross | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 ye | punct |
| 25 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ye | nsubj |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 see | obl |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 behold | advmod |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 behold | mark |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 behold | det |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 behold | nsubj |
| 31 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 32 behold | advmod |
| 32 | behold | behol | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ye | advcl |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 behold | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 know | cc |
| 35 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 behold | conj |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 know | obj |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 straightway | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 straightway | aux |
| 39 | straightway | straightway | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 know | ccomp |
| 40 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 sail | amod |
| 41 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 straightway | obj |
| 42 | again | again | ADV | _ | 39 straightway | advmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 put | cc |
| 44 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 straightway | conj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 sea | case |
| 46 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 put | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | ye doubt | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | find | may | Sir | what obj; counsel nsubj; ye nsubj | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 3 | contrive | may | we | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cross | present | we | the water | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not behol | past | adventures = adventure | me | once property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | know | infinitive | adventures = adventure not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | straightway | future | adventures = adventure | set sail | again | tree rules | |||
| 8 | put | infinitive | adventures = adventure not said here | to sea | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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