Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 55
And their wives and their children, though their lives be spared, shall be deprived of their goods and their heritage.
Who acts: wives · What happens: spare, deprive · To what, where: lives, wives
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 (wives), 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 | _ | 16 deprived | cc |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wives | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 deprived | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 children | cc |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 children | nmod:poss |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wives | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spared | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 spared | mark |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lives | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spared | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 spared | aux:pass |
| 12 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wives | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wives | punct |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 deprived | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 deprived | aux:pass |
| 16 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 goods | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 goods | nmod:poss |
| 19 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 deprived | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 heritage | cc |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heritage | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heritage | heritage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 goods | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 deprived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | infinitive · passive | knights's wives and knights's children not said here | knights's lives | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 2 | deprive | shall · passive | knights's wives and knights's children | of knights's goods and knights's heritage | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source of goods=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/11/55/