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title: Now have I nursed and tended and otherwise served my father--friends… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now have I nursed and tended and otherwise served my father--friends hath he few save myself, and I had fain stayed by him and kept him all my life, doing for him all that within me lay. Who acts: I, father. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutc
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 23

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Now have I nursed and tended and otherwise served my father--friends hath he few save myself, and I had fain stayed by him and kept him all my life, doing for him all that within me lay.

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**Who acts:** I, father · **What happens:** nurse, tend, serve, have, save, stay · **To what, where:** father, myself, that

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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, father), 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:pg8447:5:23
# text = Now have I nursed and tended and otherwise served my father--friends hath he few save myself, and I had fain stayed by him and kept him all my life, doing for him all that within me lay.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	nursed	nurse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	tended	tend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
17	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
23	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	obl	_	_
39	within	within	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
41	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nurse** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tend** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **serve** | past | I *not said here* | my father and friends |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Attribute |
| 4 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **save** | present | father | myself |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | I |  |  |  |  | fain *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **stay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by he=Location |
| 8 | **keep** | past | I *not said here* | father |  |  |  | my life *obl:unmarked* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 9 | **do** | gerund | I *not said here* | that |  |  |  | for father; within me | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **lay** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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