Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 98
Scarce might he find words; and he cried, "Who hath robbed him of life, mine own dear son, whom I loved above all the world?
Who acts: heart · What happens: find, cry, have, rob, son, love · To what, where: words, heart, own dear son, world · 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 (heart), 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 | Scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 find | advcl |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hath | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hath | punct |
| 12 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 hath | nsubj |
| 13 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 14 | robbed | rob | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hath | ccomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 robbed | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 robbed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 son | punct |
| 19 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nsubj |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 son | amod |
| 21 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 son | amod |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hath | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 loved | punct |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 loved | obj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 loved | nsubj |
| 26 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 son | acl:relcl |
| 27 | above | above | ADP | _ | 30 world | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 world | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 world | det |
| 30 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 loved | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | might | heart | words | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | heart | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Who nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rob in a quote | past | heart | of life | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme of life=Source | ||||
| 5 | son in a quote | heart | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | love in a quote | past | heart | own dear son | all world | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
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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