Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 10
That one who is noble of birth, and rich withal, should be false of heart, by my troth, 'tis great pity and bringeth many to shame.
Who acts: one · What happens: be, bring, shame · To what, where: many
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 false | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 noble | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 noble | cop |
| 5 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 one | acl:relcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 birth | case |
| 7 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noble | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 withal | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 withal | cc |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 withal | amod |
| 11 | withal | withal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 noble | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 withal | punct |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 false | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 false | cop |
| 15 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 false | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 troth | punct |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 troth | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 troth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 false | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pity | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 pity | punct |
| 24 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pity | compound |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pity | amod |
| 26 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 troth | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bringeth | cc |
| 28 | bringeth | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 false | conj |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bringeth | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 shame | mark |
| 31 | shame | shame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 many | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 false | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that one | of birth; noble property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | that one not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | should | that one | of heart; my troth and tis great pity parataxis; false property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | present | that one not said here | many | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent many=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shame | to-infinitive | that one not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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