Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 22
Four Lays rendered into English Prose from the French of Marie de France and others by JESSIE L. WESTON.
What happens: render · To what, where: Four Lays, English Prose
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Lays | nummod |
| 2 | Lays | lay | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Lays | acl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 Prose | case |
| 5 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Prose | amod |
| 6 | Prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rendered | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 French | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 French | det |
| 9 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Prose | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 France | case |
| 11 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 France | compound |
| 12 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Marie | flat |
| 13 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 French | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 others | cc |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 French | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 L. | case |
| 17 | JESSIE | JESSIE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 L. | compound |
| 18 | L. | L. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rendered | obl:agent |
| 19 | WESTON | WESTON | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 L. | flat |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | render | participle | Four Lays not said here | English Prose from the French of Marie France and others | JESSIE L. obl:agent | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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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