Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 24
And this have I now done, and I yield myself to your grace, Sir King, avowing my misdeeds that I have wrought in this world, whether in thought or deed."
Who acts: this, I · What happens: have, do, yield, avow · To what, where: myself, grace, misdeeds, thought, world
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 (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 have | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 done | nsubj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 done | advmod |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 have | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 yield | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 yield | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 yield | nsubj |
| 10 | yield | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 yield | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 grace | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 grace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yield | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sir | punct |
| 16 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 grace | appos |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sir | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 avowing | punct |
| 19 | avowing | avow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 yield | advcl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 misdeeds | nmod:poss |
| 21 | misdeeds | misdeed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 avowing | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 have | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 misdeeds | acl:relcl |
| 25 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 have | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 world | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 world | det |
| 28 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 thought | punct |
| 30 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 32 thought | mark |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 thought | case |
| 32 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 avowing | obl |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 deed | cc |
| 34 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 thought | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | participle | I | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | yield | present | I | myself | to your grace goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to grace=Goal | |||
| 4 | avow | gerund | I not said here | my misdeeds | thought or deed | vn declare-29.4 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent misdeed=Attribute | |||
| 5 | have | present | I | my misdeeds | this world | wrought property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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