Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 23
Now have I nursed and tended and otherwise served my father--friends hath he few save myself, and I had fain stayed by him and kept him all my life, doing for him all that within me lay.
Who acts: I, father · What happens: nurse, tend, serve, have, save, stay · To what, where: father, myself, that
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, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 nursed | advmod |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nursed | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 nursed | nsubj |
| 4 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 hath | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tended | cc |
| 6 | tended | tend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 nursed | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 served | cc |
| 8 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 9 served | advmod |
| 9 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nursed | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 served | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 friends | punct |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 father | conj |
| 14 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 save | nsubj |
| 16 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 save | nsubj |
| 17 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hath | ccomp |
| 18 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 save | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hath | parataxis |
| 23 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 had | xcomp |
| 24 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 fain | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stayed | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 kept | cc |
| 28 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 had | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 kept | obj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 life | det:predet |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 life | nmod:poss |
| 32 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 doing | punct |
| 34 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 kept | advcl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 doing | obl |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 that | det:predet |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 doing | obl |
| 39 | within | within | ADP | _ | 40 me | case |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 doing | obl |
| 41 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 doing | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nurse | present · perfect | I | now | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tend | participle | I not said here | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | serve | past | I not said here | my father and friends | otherwise property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Attribute | |||
| 4 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | save | present | father | myself | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | I | fain property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | stay | participle | by father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by he=Location | |||||
| 8 | keep | past | I not said here | father | my life obl:unmarked | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 9 | do | gerund | I not said here | that | for father; within me | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 10 | lay | infinitive | I not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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