Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 60

Further spake the knight Sir Gariët: "Even should he be beside himself when he first see ye, I shall not let him free ere he have taken us to the further shore, or I shall have from him such forfeit 'twere better for him to be sunken and drowned in the depths of the sea!"

Who acts: you, Sir, I · What happens: speak, be, see, not let, take, have · To what, where: knight, ye, free ere, Sir, us, further shore · 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, I), 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	Further	further	ADV	_	2 spake	advmod
2	spake	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knight	det
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spake	obj
5	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Gariët	nmod:desc
6	Gariët	Gariët	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 knight	appos
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 himself	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 himself	punct
9	Even	even	ADV	_	10 should	advmod
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 himself	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 himself	nsubj
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 himself	cop
13	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 spake	obl:unmarked
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 see	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 see	advmod
18	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 let	advcl
19	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 see	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 let	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 let	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 let	advmod
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 spake	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ere	amod
27	ere	ere	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 let	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 taken	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 taken	aux
30	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 ere	acl:relcl
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 taken	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 shore	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 shore	det
34	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 shore	amod
35	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taken	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 have	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 have	cc
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 have	nsubj
39	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 have	aux
40	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	conj
41	from	from	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 have	obl
43	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 forfeit	amod
44	forfeit	forfeit	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 have	obj
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	47 better	punct
46	twere	twere	ADV	_	47 better	advmod
47	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 have	parataxis
48	for	for	SCONJ	_	52 sunken	mark
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 sunken	nsubj
50	to	to	PART	_	52 sunken	mark
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 sunken	cop
52	sunken	sunken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 better	advcl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 drowned	cc
54	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 sunken	conj
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 depths	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 depths	det
57	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 drowned	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 sea	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 sea	det
60	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 depths	nmod
61	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 spake	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 spake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the knight			further property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	should	Sir				beside Sir	tree rules
3	see in a quote	present	Sir	ye			first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ye=Stimulus
4	not let in a quote	shall	I	free ere	Sir			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ere=Theme
5	take in a quote	present · perfect	Sir	us		the further shore		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme to shore=Destination
6	have in a quote	shall	I	such forfeit			from Sir	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forfeit=Patient
7	is in a quote	to-infinitive	Sir				sunken property	tree rules
8	drown in a quote	participle	Sir not said here			the depths of the sea		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 60

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 60