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title: Tis many a day since he first spake to me, but I would not hearken t… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tis many a day since he first spake to me, but I would not hearken to him, other sorrows vexed me; poverty grieveth me sore; thereto have I griefs that I may not lightly tell. Who acts: I, other sorrows, poverty. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 19

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Tis many a day since he first spake to me, but I would not hearken to him, other sorrows vexed me; poverty grieveth me sore; thereto have I griefs that I may not lightly tell.

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**Who acts:** I, other sorrows, poverty · **What happens:** not hearken, vex, grieve, have, grief, not tell · **To what, where:** Tis, me, griefs, many day · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, other sorrows, poverty), 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:pg8447:5:19
# text = Tis many a day since he first spake to me, but I would not hearken to him, other sorrows vexed me; poverty grieveth me sore; thereto have I griefs that I may not lightly tell.
1	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
8	spake	speak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	vexed	vex	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	grieveth	grieve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	thereto	thereto	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	griefs	grief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obj	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
36	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
38	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hearken** | would | I |  | Tis |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vex** | past | other sorrows | me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 3 | **grieve** | present | poverty | me |  |  |  | sore *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  | thereto *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grief** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | may | I | griefs |  |  |  | lightly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |

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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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