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title: Twas altogether denied her by the law of the land; yet 'twas the sha… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Twas altogether denied her by the law of the land; yet 'twas the shame rather than the loss that grieved her, in that men called her son fatherless, and she might bring no proof of her word, nor shew them to their face the man who had begotten me!" Who acts: Twas, loss, Morien, man. A sentence of «M
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 34

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Twas altogether denied her by the law of the land; yet 'twas the shame rather than the loss that grieved her, in that men called her son fatherless, and she might bring no proof of her word, nor shew them to their face the man who had begotten me!"

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**Who acts:** Twas, loss, Morien, man · **What happens:** deny, grieve, call, bring, shew, beget · **To what, where:** Morien, son, proof, Twas, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twas, loss, Morien, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8447:10:34
# text = Twas altogether denied her by the law of the land; yet 'twas the shame rather than the loss that grieved her, in that men called her son fatherless, and she might bring no proof of her word, nor shew them to their face the man who had begotten me!"
1	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	denied	deny	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	20	cc	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
28	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	fatherless	fatherless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
37	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	det	_	_
38	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	44	cc	_	_
44	shew	shew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
51	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	begotten	beget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	acl:relcl	_	_
54	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deny** | past | Twas | Morien |  |  |  | by the law of the land; twas *obl*; altogether *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grieve** | past | the loss | Morien |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 3 | **call** | past | Twas *not said here* |  | Morien's son |  |  | in that men; fatherless *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient |
| 4 | **bring** | might | Morien | no proof of Morien's word |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent proof=Theme |
| 5 | **shew** | infinitive | Morien *not said here* | Twas *= twa* |  |  |  | to Twas's face  me | tree rules |
| 6 | **beget** | past · perfect | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **proof** |  |  | Morien's word |  |  |  |  | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **word** |  | Morien |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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