Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 9
Tis seven years past that I lost all my goods, and poverty pressed me so sorely that I knew not what I might do.
Who acts: Tis seven years, poverty, I · What happens: lose, press, not know, do · To what, where: goods, me · 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 (Tis seven years, poverty, 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 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 years | compound |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | past | past | ADP | _ | 7 lost | mark |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 lost | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 goods | det:predet |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 goods | nmod:poss |
| 10 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 lost | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pressed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pressed | cc |
| 13 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pressed | nsubj |
| 14 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lost | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 pressed | obj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 sorely | advmod |
| 17 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 14 pressed | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 knew | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 knew | nsubj |
| 20 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pressed | advcl |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 knew | advmod |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 do | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 knew | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Tis seven years | my goods | I nsubj | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | press | past | poverty | me | sorely property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent i=Result | |||
| 3 | not know | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | might | I | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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