Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 53
Thus shall I put the shame from me, that neither near nor afar, now or henceforward, men make scorn of me.
Who acts: I, men · What happens: put, make, scorn · To what, where: shame, scorn, me
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, men), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shame | det |
| 6 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 near | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 near | mark |
| 11 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 near | nsubj |
| 12 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 put | conj |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 afar | cc |
| 14 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 near | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 now | punct |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 near | advmod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 henceforward | cc |
| 18 | henceforward | henceforward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 now | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | nsubj |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 22 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 scorn | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | shall | I | the shame | from me; thus property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shame=Goal | |||
| 2 | make | present | men | scorn of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorn=Product | ||||
| 3 | scorn | me | nom scorn «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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