Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 34
Yet I and my court and my country alike are shamed and dishonoured in that we have so long lacked his presence, and for this am I above measure sorrowful."
Who acts: we, I · What happens: shame, dishonour, have, lack, measure · To what, where: I, presence
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 (we, 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 11 shamed | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 shamed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 court | cc |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 court | nmod:poss |
| 5 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 I | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 country | cc |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 country | nmod:poss |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 I | conj |
| 9 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 11 shamed | advmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shamed | aux:pass |
| 11 | shamed | shame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 lacked | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dishonoured | cc |
| 13 | dishonoured | dishonour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 shamed | conj |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 have | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 in | fixed |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dishonoured | advcl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 long | advmod |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 lacked | advmod |
| 20 | lacked | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 presence | nmod:poss |
| 22 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lacked | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 measure | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 measure | cc |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 am | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 am | det |
| 27 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 measure | obl |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 measure | nsubj |
| 29 | above | above | ADV | _ | 30 measure | advmod |
| 30 | measure | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lacked | parataxis |
| 31 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 measure | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 lacked | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 lacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shame | present · passive | I | alike property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | dishonour | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | we | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lack | past | knight's presence | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | measure | present | I | for this am; above, sorrowful property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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.
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