Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 40
Thereto was I greatly shamed, for they called me fatherless, and I could shew naught against it, nor tell them who it was that begat me, since my father had thus fled.
Who acts: I, laws, father · What happens: be, call, shew, tell, flee · To what, where: me, naught, laws · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, laws, father), 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 | Thereto | thereto | ADV | _ | 5 shamed | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shamed | cop |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 shamed | nsubj |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 shamed | advmod |
| 5 | shamed | shame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 called | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shamed | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 called | obj |
| 11 | fatherless | fatherless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 called | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shew | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 shew | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 shew | aux |
| 16 | shew | shew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 shamed | conj |
| 17 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 16 shew | obj |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 shew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tell | punct |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 tell | cc |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 shew | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tell | iobj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 me | nsubj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 me | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 me | cop |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 me | mark |
| 28 | begat | begat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 me | compound |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 tell | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fled | punct |
| 31 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 36 fled | mark |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 father | nmod:poss |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fled | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 fled | aux |
| 35 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 36 fled | advmod |
| 36 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 tell | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | greatly, shame, thereto property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past | laws = law | me | fatherless property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | shew | could | I | naught | against heritage | tree rules | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | I not said here | laws = law | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | me | who nsubj; heritage nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | flee | past · perfect | my father | thus property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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