Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 32
This vexed my father sorely, that for this cause, and to keep his oath, he must needs leave my mother.
Who acts: This, Sir · What happens: vex, keep, leave · To what, where: father, oath, mother
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 (This, Sir), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 vexed | nsubj |
| 2 | vexed | vex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vexed | obj |
| 5 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 2 vexed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 that | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 vexed | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 cause | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 cause | det |
| 10 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vexed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 keep | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 keep | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 keep | mark |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 vexed | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 oath | nmod:poss |
| 16 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leave | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 leave | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 leave | aux |
| 20 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 leave | nsubj |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 keep | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leave | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past | This | my father | for this cause; that advcl; sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | This not said here | Sir's oath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | must | Sir | my mother | needs nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=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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