Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 58
Ye shall follow on softly; and let me once come therein, and have my steed aboard and the boatman in my power, he shall not depart hence ere that ye be come thither.
Who acts: Ye, Sir · What happens: follow, let, come, have, not depart · To what, where: me, steed, ere
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 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | aux |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 softly | case |
| 5 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 3 follow | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 follow | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 come | advmod |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | advcl |
| 12 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 follow | parataxis |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 steed | nmod:poss |
| 17 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | aboard | aboard | ADV | _ | 15 have | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 boatman | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boatman | det |
| 21 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 power | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 power | nmod:poss |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 boatman | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 depart | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 depart | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 depart | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 depart | advmod |
| 29 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 follow | conj |
| 30 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 29 depart | advmod |
| 31 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 depart | obj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 come | nsubj |
| 33 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 come | nsubj |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 come | aux:pass |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 ere | acl:relcl |
| 36 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 35 come | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | shall | Ye | softly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Ye not said here | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | present | Ye not said here | once, therein property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | infinitive | my steed | the boatman in my power conj; aboard property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not depart | shall | Sir | ere | hence property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ere=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | come | infinitive · passive | ere | ye nsubj; thither property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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