Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 28
The metrical romance of which the following pages offer a prose translation is contained in the mediæval Dutch version of the _Lancelot_, where it occupies upwards of five thousand lines, forming the conclusion of the first existing volume of that compilation.
Who acts: following pages, Romance · What happens: follow, offer, contain, occupy, form, conclude · To what, where: prose translation, metrical romance, mediæval Dutch version, conclusion, first existing volume
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: who acts (following pages, Romance), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 romance | det |
| 2 | metrical | metrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 romance | amod |
| 3 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 contained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 offer | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pages | det |
| 7 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 pages | amod |
| 8 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 offer | nsubj |
| 9 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 romance | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 translation | det |
| 11 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 translation | compound |
| 12 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offer | obj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 contained | aux:pass |
| 14 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 version | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 version | det |
| 17 | mediæval | mediæval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 version | compound |
| 18 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 version | amod |
| 19 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 contained | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Lancelot | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Lancelot | det |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 Lancelot | punct |
| 23 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 version | nmod |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 Lancelot | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 occupies | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 occupies | advmod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 occupies | nsubj |
| 28 | occupies | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Lancelot | acl:relcl |
| 29 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 33 lines | advmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 lines | case |
| 31 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 thousand | compound |
| 32 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 lines | nummod |
| 33 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 occupies | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 forming | punct |
| 35 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 occupies | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 conclusion | det |
| 37 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 forming | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 volume | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 volume | det |
| 40 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 42 volume | amod |
| 41 | existing | existing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 volume | amod |
| 42 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 conclusion | nmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 compilation | case |
| 44 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 compilation | det |
| 45 | compilation | compilation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 volume | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 contained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | offer | present | the following pages | a prose translation | of the metrical romance | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent translation=Theme | |||
| 3 | contain | present · passive | the metrical romance | the mediæval Dutch version of the Lancelot | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in version=Location | ||||
| 4 | occupy | present | Romance | of thousand lines | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | form | gerund | Romance not said here | the conclusion of the first existing volume of that compilation | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location conclusion=Theme | ||||
| 6 | conclude | the first existing volume of that compilation | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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