Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 57
Quoth Sir Gariët: "By what ye tell me, methinks 'twere better that I ride on ahead, and hire me a ship.
Who acts: ye, Sir · What happens: tell, ride on, hire · To what, where: Sir, ship, Quoth Gariët · 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 (ye, Sir), 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gariët | compound |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gariët | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 " | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Gariët | punct |
| 6 | By | by | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 " | obl |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 better | punct |
| 12 | methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 better | nsubj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 better | punct |
| 14 | twere | twere | ADV | _ | 15 better | advmod |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 ride | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ride | nsubj |
| 18 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 better | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 20 ahead | advmod |
| 20 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 18 ride | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hire | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hire | cc |
| 23 | hire | hire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tell | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 hire | obj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ship | det |
| 26 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hire | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Gariët | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | ye | Sir | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | ride on in a quote | present | Sir | ahead property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hire in a quote | infinitive | ye not said here | a ship | Sir | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary ship=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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