Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 62
Now ride ye without delay, and hire us a boat, good and strong, that may well carry us over the water.
Who acts: you, that · What happens: ride, hire, carry · To what, where: ye, boat, us, water
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, that), 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 ride | advmod |
| 2 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 ride | obj |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 delay | case |
| 5 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ride | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hire | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hire | cc |
| 8 | hire | hire | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 ride | conj |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hire | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boat | det |
| 11 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hire | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 good | punct |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boat | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 strong | cc |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 good | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 carry | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 carry | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 carry | aux |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 carry | advmod |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hire | conj |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | obj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carry | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | imperative | you not said here | ye | now | without delay | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme | ||
| 2 | hire | infinitive | you not said here | a boat | us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary boat=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | may | that | us | the water | well property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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