Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 30
He tore his hair, and demeaned himself as one sorely vexed, and spake: "Though I be lord of riches yet may I say that I am friendless!
Who acts: knight, I · What happens: tore, demean, vex, be, say · To what, where: hair, knight, one, lord · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (knight, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tore | nsubj |
| 2 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hair | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tore | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 demeaned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 demeaned | cc |
| 7 | demeaned | demean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tore | conj |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 demeaned | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 vexed | mark |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 vexed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 12 vexed | advmod |
| 12 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 say | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spake | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spake | cc |
| 15 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vexed | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 lord | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 lord | punct |
| 18 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 lord | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 lord | nsubj |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 lord | cop |
| 21 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spake | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 riches | case |
| 23 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lord | nmod |
| 24 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 vexed | advmod |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 say | aux |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 say | nsubj |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 demeaned | parataxis |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 friendless | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 friendless | nsubj |
| 30 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 friendless | cop |
| 31 | friendless | friendless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 say | ccomp |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tore | past | knight | knight's hair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | demean | past | knight not said here | knight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | vex | participle · passive | one | yet | spake obj; sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer speak=Result | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | infinitive | I | lord | of riches | tree rules | |||
| 5 | say speech: express in a quote | may | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | I | friendless 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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