Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 22
My father hath lain sick, seven year long, and hath lost his goods, and now lieth in sore straits; he may neither ride nor walk nor stand upon his feet, he suffereth much.
Who acts: father · What happens: have, lie, lose, ride, walk, stand · To what, where: goods, sore straits, feet
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 (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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hath | nsubj |
| 3 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hath | xcomp |
| 5 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lain | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 year | punct |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 year | nummod |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sick | conj |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 year | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hath | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hath | cc |
| 12 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hath | conj |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hath | ccomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 goods | nmod:poss |
| 15 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 lost | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lieth | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lieth | cc |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 lieth | advmod |
| 19 | lieth | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hath | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 straits | case |
| 21 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 straits | amod |
| 22 | straits | strait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lieth | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 ride | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 ride | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 ride | aux |
| 26 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 ride | cc:preconj |
| 27 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hath | parataxis |
| 28 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 29 walk | cc |
| 29 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ride | conj |
| 30 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 31 stand | cc |
| 31 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ride | conj |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 feet | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 feet | nmod:poss |
| 34 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 stand | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 suffereth | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 suffereth | nsubj |
| 37 | suffereth | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 ride | conj |
| 38 | much | much | ADV | _ | 37 suffereth | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | My father | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lie | participle | My father not said here | sick property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | present | My father not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lose | past | My father not said here | father's goods | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | lie | present | My father not said here | sore straits | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in strait=Location | |||
| 6 | ride | may | father | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | walk | infinitive | father not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | stand | infinitive | father not said here | father's feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon foot=Location | ||||
| 9 | suffer | present | father | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: 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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