Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 81
So shall my mother once more be possessed of the lands of which she hath been disinherited, and which she hath this long time lacked.
What happens: possess, disinherit, have, lack · To what, where: mother, sware, long time
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 possessed | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 possessed | aux |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 possessed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 possessed | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 possessed | aux:pass |
| 8 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 lands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lands | det |
| 11 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 possessed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 disinherited | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 disinherited | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 disinherited | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 disinherited | aux:pass |
| 17 | disinherited | disinherit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 lands | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hath | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hath | cc |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 hath | nsubj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hath | nsubj |
| 22 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 possessed | conj |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 time | det |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hath | obj |
| 26 | lacked | lack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 time | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 possessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | shall · passive | my mother | of the lands | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disinherit | present · perfect · passive | sware | of the lands | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | time | which nsubj; sware nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lack | participle | this long time not said here | tree rules |
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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