Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 6
Then spake Sir Gariët, "An God will, it shall fall out better than ye say, 'twixt ye and your father; we will eat and drink, and I rede ye, an ye be wise, ye shall bethink ye well ere ye do aught save good to your father.
Who acts: you, God, ye, we, I · What happens: speak, fall out, say, twixt, eat, drink · To what, where: Sir, ye, aught, good · 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, God, ye, we), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obj |
| 4 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sir | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fall | punct |
| 7 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 God | det |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fall | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fall | aux |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 will | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fall | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fall | aux |
| 13 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spake | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 fall | advmod |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 fall | xcomp |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 say | mark |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 say | nsubj |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 better | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 twixt | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 twixt | punct |
| 21 | twixt | twixt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 say | obj |
| 22 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 twixt | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 father | cc |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ye | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 eat | punct |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 eat | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 eat | aux |
| 29 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spake | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 drink | cc |
| 31 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 eat | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 rede | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 rede | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 rede | nsubj |
| 35 | rede | rede | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 eat | parataxis |
| 36 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 rede | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 wise | punct |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 wise | det |
| 39 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 41 wise | nsubj |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 wise | cop |
| 41 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 rede | parataxis |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 bethink | punct |
| 43 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 45 bethink | nsubj |
| 44 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 bethink | aux |
| 45 | bethink | bethink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 eat | conj |
| 46 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 45 bethink | obj |
| 47 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 bethink | advmod |
| 48 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 50 do | advmod |
| 49 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 50 do | nsubj |
| 50 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 bethink | advcl |
| 51 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 50 do | obj |
| 52 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 do | xcomp |
| 53 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 save | obj |
| 54 | to | to | ADP | _ | 56 father | case |
| 55 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 father | nmod:poss |
| 56 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 save | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | Sir | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fall out in a quote | shall · future | a God | oath nsubj; good, out property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | ye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | twixt in a quote | ye your father | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | future | we | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | drink in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | rede in a quote | present | I | ye | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is in a quote | infinitive | ye | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | bethink in a quote | shall | ye | ye | well property | tree rules | |||
| 10 | do in a quote | present | ye | aught | ere property | tree rules | |||
| 11 | save in a quote | infinitive | ye not said here | good | to your father | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=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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