Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 31

Even had they money or pledge to offer there dwelt none that side of the border, as they too well knew, but their bitter foes, who had fain wrought them woe. '

Who acts: wounds, bitter foes · What happens: have, money, offer, dwell, know · To what, where: none, wrought woe

This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wounds, bitter foes), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 money	nsubj
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 pledge	cc
6	pledge	pledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 money	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 offer	mark
8	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	advcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 offer	advmod
10	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	10 dwelt	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 side	det
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 none	flat
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 border	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 border	det
16	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 side	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knew	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 knew	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 knew	nsubj
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 well	advmod
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 knew	advmod
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dwelt	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 foes	nmod:poss
26	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 foes	amod
27	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 had	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
31	fain	fain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 wrought	amod
32	wrought	wrought	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 woe	amod
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wrought	obj
34	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	money		wounds = wound			pledge conj	tree rules
3	offer	to-infinitive			there		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	dwell	past		none			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme none=Location
5	know	past	wounds = wound			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	have	past	wounds's bitter foes	wrought woe		who nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woe=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 31

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 31