Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 38
I and my mother are disinherited, since that he hath deserted us, of great goods and of a fair heritage, that which fell to her from her father have we lost altogether.
Who acts: that, we · What happens: disinherit, desert, fall, lose · To what, where: I, Sir, 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 (that, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 disinherited | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mother | cc |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 I | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 disinherited | aux:pass |
| 6 | disinherited | disinherit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 deserted | punct |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 deserted | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 deserted | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 deserted | nsubj |
| 11 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 deserted | aux:pass |
| 12 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 disinherited | conj |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 deserted | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 goods | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 goods | case |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 goods | amod |
| 17 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 deserted | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 heritage | cc |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 heritage | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 heritage | det |
| 21 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 heritage | amod |
| 22 | heritage | heritage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 goods | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fell | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 disinherited | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fell | obl |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 father | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lost | obl |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 lost | aux |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 lost | nsubj |
| 34 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 fell | parataxis |
| 35 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 34 lost | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 disinherited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disinherit | present · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | desert | present · passive | Sir | of great goods and a fair heritage; us obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | that | mother | which nsubj | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to she=Pivot | |||
| 4 | lose | present · perfect | we | from mother's father; altogether property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from father=Initial_Location |
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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