Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 19

Tis many a day since he first spake to me, but I would not hearken to him, other sorrows vexed me; poverty grieveth me sore; thereto have I griefs that I may not lightly tell.

Who acts: I, other sorrows, poverty · What happens: not hearken, vex, grieve, have, grief, not tell · To what, where: Tis, me, griefs, many day · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, other sorrows, poverty), 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	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 day	nsubj
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 spake	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spake	nsubj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 spake	advmod
8	spake	speak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 spake	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hearken	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 hearken	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hearken	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hearken	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hearken	advmod
16	hearken	hearken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 day	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hearken	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 vexed	punct
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sorrows	amod
21	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 vexed	nsubj
22	vexed	vex	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hearken	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 vexed	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 grieveth	punct
25	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grieveth	nsubj
26	grieveth	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hearken	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 grieveth	obj
28	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grieveth	xcomp
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
30	thereto	thereto	ADV	_	31 have	advmod
31	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 day	parataxis
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 griefs	nsubj
33	griefs	grief	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 have	obj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 tell	obj
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 tell	nsubj
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 tell	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 tell	advmod
38	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	39 tell	advmod
39	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 griefs	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not hearken	would	I		Tis		tree rules
2	vex	past	other sorrows	me			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
3	grieve	present	poverty	me		sore property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
4	have	present				thereto property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	grief		I				tree rules
6	not tell speech: assert	may	I	griefs		lightly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient

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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 19