Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 23
And this hath wrought me the greater harm; yet might I but find a place wherein to rest methinks I might well be healed."
Who acts: this, I · What happens: have, wrought, find, rest, heal · To what, where: me, place, methinks, I
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hath | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 hath | nsubj |
| 3 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hath | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wrought | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 harm | det |
| 7 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 harm | amod |
| 8 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrought | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 10 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 14 find | cc |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 find | cc |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hath | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 17 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 rest | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 rest | mark |
| 19 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | conj |
| 20 | methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rest | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 healed | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 healed | aux |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 healed | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 healed | aux:pass |
| 25 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 rest | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hath | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wrought | past | this not said here | me | the greater harm obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | find | might | I | a place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 4 | rest | to-infinitive | I not said here | methinks | wherein property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location methink=Theme | |||
| 5 | heal | might · passive | I | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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