Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 27
Therein was she ill-counselled, for he forsook her thereafter--'tis more than fourteen years past; and when he parted from her she bare me, though he knew it not.
Who acts: Sir, troth · What happens: be, forsake, part, bear, not know · To what, where: troth, me, reward
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, troth), 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 | Therein | therein | ADV | _ | 6 counselled | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 counselled | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 counselled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 counselled | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ill | punct |
| 6 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 forsook | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 forsook | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forsook | nsubj |
| 10 | forsook | forsake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 counselled | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forsook | obj |
| 12 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 10 forsook | advmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 tis | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 tis | punct |
| 15 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forsook | obl |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 18 fourteen | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 more | fixed |
| 18 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 past | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tis | amod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 bare | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bare | cc |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 parted | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 parted | nsubj |
| 25 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 bare | advcl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 parted | obl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bare | nsubj |
| 29 | bare | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 counselled | conj |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 bare | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 knew | punct |
| 32 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 34 knew | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 knew | nsubj |
| 34 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 bare | parataxis |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 knew | obj |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 knew | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 counselled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · passive | troth | counsell, therein property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forsake | past | Sir | troth | tis obl; thereafter property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | part | past | Sir | from troth | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from she=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | bear | infinitive | troth | me | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not know | past | Sir | reward | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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