Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 9
My brother knew well that our foes had taken to themselves the heritage that should have been ours, when they drave my father forth.
Who acts: brother, ours · What happens: know, take, be, drave · To what, where: foes, ours, heritage
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 (brother, ours), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 taken | mark |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 foes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 knew | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 themselves | case |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 taken | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heritage | det |
| 13 | heritage | heritage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 drave | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 ours | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ours | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 ours | cop |
| 18 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 drave | nsubj:outer |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drave | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 drave | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drave | nsubj |
| 22 | drave | drave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 heritage | acl:relcl |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drave | obj |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 drave | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | My brother | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | our foes | foes = foe | the heritage obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme heritage=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | should · perfect | ours | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | drave | past | ours | the heritage | foes = foe nsubj; my father obj; forth property | 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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