Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 70

Thereto have we another woe; the Irish King hath come into the land, and made war; one town hath he already won, and layeth siege to another.

Who acts: Irish King, one town, King · What happens: have, come, make, win, lay · To what, where: we, land, war, siege

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 (Irish King, one town, King), 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	Thereto	thereto	ADV	_	2 have	advmod
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	obj
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 woe	det
5	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 hath	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
8	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 King	amod
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hath	nsubj
10	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hath	ccomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 land	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 land	det
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hath	conj
18	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 hath	punct
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 town	nummod
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hath	nsubj
22	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hath	conj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 won	nsubj
24	already	already	ADV	_	25 won	advmod
25	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hath	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 layeth	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 layeth	cc
28	layeth	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hath	conj
29	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 layeth	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 another	case
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 layeth	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present		we		another woe obj; thereto property	tree rules
2	have	present	the Irish King				tree rules
3	come	infinitive	the Irish King not said here		the land		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_Location
4	make	past	the Irish King not said here	war			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product
5	have	present	one town				tree rules
6	win	past	King				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	lay	present	the Irish King not said here	siege		to another	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Result

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 70

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 70