Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 33
He told how they had been deprived of their rightful heritage which had fallen to his mother from her father. "'
Who acts: Knight, rightful heritage · What happens: tell, deprive, fall · To what, where: Twas · 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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knight, rightful heritage), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 deprived | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 deprived | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 deprived | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 deprived | aux:pass |
| 7 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 told | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 heritage | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heritage | nmod:poss |
| 10 | rightful | rightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heritage | amod |
| 11 | heritage | heritage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deprived | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 fallen | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fallen | aux |
| 14 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 heritage | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 mother | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fallen | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 father | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fallen | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Knight | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | deprive | past · perfect · passive | Twas = twa | of Twas's rightful heritage | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source of heritage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past · perfect | Twas's rightful heritage | to Knight's mother; from Morien's father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location from father=Destination |
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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