Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 36

Little good hath it done me that he be my father, and that he sware to my mother, ere he departed, that for her honour, and for her profit, he would return to her without fail.

Who acts: Little good, plight, Sir, that, mother · What happens: have, do, be, sware, depart, return · To what, where: plight, me, father, ere, 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 (Little good, plight, Sir, that), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 good	amod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hath	nsubj
3	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hath	obj
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hath	xcomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 done	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 father	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 father	nsubj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 father	cop
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 return	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 return	cc
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 sware	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sware	nsubj
16	sware	sware	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 return	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 mother	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sware	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ere	punct
21	ere	ere	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mother	appos
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 departed	nsubj
23	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ere	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sware	punct
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 return	nsubj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 honour	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 honour	nmod:poss
28	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 that	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 return	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 return	cc
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 profit	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 profit	nmod:poss
33	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 return	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 profit	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 return	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 return	aux
37	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hath	parataxis
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 return	obj
40	without	without	ADP	_	41 fail	case
41	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 return	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hath	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Little good	plight			tree rules
2	do	participle	plight not said here		me		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality
3	is a	infinitive	Sir	my father		my nmod:poss	tree rules
4	sware		Sir			to my mother	tree rules
5	depart	past	Sir	ere not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ere=Initial_Location
6	return	would	that for mother's honour	mother		for mother's profit; without fail; Sir nsubj	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme
7	honour		mother				nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent
8	profit		mother				nom profit «possession intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/36/

🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 36