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description: Scarce might he find words; and he cried, "Who hath robbed him of life, mine own dear son, whom I loved above all the world? Who acts: heart. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 98

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Scarce might he find words; and he cried, "Who hath robbed him of life, mine own dear son, whom I loved above all the world?

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** find, cry, have, rob, son, love · **To what, where:** words, heart, own dear son, world · **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 (heart), 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:pg8447:5:98
# text = Scarce might he find words; and he cried, "Who hath robbed him of life, mine own dear son, whom I loved above all the world?
1	Scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	robbed	rob	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	above	above	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | might | heart | words |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | Who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rob** *in a quote* | past |  | heart |  |  |  | of life | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme of life=Source |
| 5 | **son** *in a quote* |  | heart |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **love** *in a quote* | past | heart | own dear son |  | all world |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |

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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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