Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 11
My tithes had I sold, I had spent all my goods, and pledged all my heritage, so that of all that my father left when he departed from this world there remained to me nothing.
Who acts: tithes, I, father · What happens: have, sell, spend, pledge, leave, depart · To what, where: goods, heritage, that, world, nothing, me
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tithes, I, father), 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 tithes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tithes | tithe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sold | nsubj |
| 5 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spent | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 spent | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spent | aux |
| 9 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 had | parataxis |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 goods | det:predet |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 goods | nmod:poss |
| 12 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 spent | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pledged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pledged | cc |
| 15 | pledged | pledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 heritage | det:predet |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heritage | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heritage | heritage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pledged | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 that | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 21 that | case |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 pledged | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 that | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 left | obj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 left | nsubj |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pledged | conj |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 departed | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 departed | nsubj |
| 30 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 left | advcl |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 world | case |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 departed | obl |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 departed | advmod |
| 35 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 left | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 me | case |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 remained | obl |
| 38 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 35 remained | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | My tithes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sell | past | I | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spend | past · perfect | I | my goods | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Asset | ||||
| 4 | pledge | past | my heritage | that obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent heritage=Goal that=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | my father | that | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 6 | depart | past | father | this world; there | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from world=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | remain | participle | my father not said here | nothing | me | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Attribute |
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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