Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 34

Twas altogether denied her by the law of the land; yet 'twas the shame rather than the loss that grieved her, in that men called her son fatherless, and she might bring no proof of her word, nor shew them to their face the man who had begotten me!"

Who acts: Twas, loss, Morien, man · What happens: deny, grieve, call, bring, shew, beget · To what, where: Morien, son, proof, Twas, word · 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 (Twas, loss, Morien, man), 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	Twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 denied	nsubj
2	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	3 denied	advmod
3	denied	deny	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 denied	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 law	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 law	det
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 denied	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 land	det
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 law	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 twas	punct
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 twas	advmod
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 yet	punct
14	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 denied	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shame	det
16	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 twas	appos
17	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	20 loss	cc
18	than	than	ADP	_	17 rather	fixed
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 loss	det
20	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shame	conj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 grieved	nsubj
22	grieved	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 loss	acl:relcl
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 grieved	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 called	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 men	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 men	det
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 called	obl
28	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 denied	conj
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 son	nmod:poss
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 called	obj
31	fatherless	fatherless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 called	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bring	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bring	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bring	nsubj
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 bring	aux
36	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 denied	ccomp
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 proof	det
38	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bring	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 word	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 word	nmod:poss
41	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 proof	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 shew	punct
43	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	44 shew	cc
44	shew	shew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 bring	conj
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 shew	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 face	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 face	nmod:poss
48	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 shew	obl
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 man	det
50	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 me	nsubj
51	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 begotten	nsubj
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 begotten	aux
53	begotten	beget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 man	acl:relcl
54	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 face	acl:relcl
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 bring	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	deny	past	Twas	Morien		by the law of the land; twas obl; altogether property	tree rules
2	grieve	past	the loss	Morien			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	call	past	Twas not said here		Morien's son	in that men; fatherless property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
4	bring	might	Morien	no proof of Morien's word			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent proof=Theme
5	shew	infinitive	Morien not said here	Twas = twa		to Twas's face me	tree rules
6	beget	past · perfect	the man				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	proof			Morien's word			nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8	word		Morien				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 10, sentence 34

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 34