Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 31

The Dutch MS. is of the commencement of the fourteenth century, and appears to represent a compilation similar to that with which Sir Thomas Malory has made us familiar, _i.e._, a condensed rendering of a number of Arthurian romances which in their original form were independent of each other.

Who acts: Dutch MS., Arthurian romances, commencement · What happens: be, appear, represent, make, condense, render · To what, where: compilation, Thomas, original form, number

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 (Dutch MS., Arthurian romances, commencement), 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 MS.	det
2	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 MS.	amod
3	MS.	MS.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 commencement	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 commencement	cop
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 commencement	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 commencement	det
7	commencement	commencement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 century	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 century	det
10	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 century	amod
11	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 commencement	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 appears	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 appears	cc
14	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 commencement	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 represent	mark
16	represent	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 appears	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 compilation	det
18	compilation	compilation	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 represent	obj
19	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 compilation	amod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 similar	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 made	obl
24	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Thomas	nmod:desc
25	Thomas	Thomas	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 made	nsubj:pass
26	Malory	Malory	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Thomas	flat
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 that	parataxis
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 made	obj
30	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 made	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 i.e.	punct
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 i.e.	punct
33	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	7 commencement	appos
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 i.e.	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 rendering	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 rendering	det
37	condensed	condense	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 rendering	amod
38	rendering	rendering	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 commencement	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 number	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 number	det
41	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rendering	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 romances	case
43	Arthurian	arthurian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 romances	amod
44	romances	romance	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 number	nmod
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 independent	nsubj
46	in	in	ADP	_	49 form	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 form	nmod:poss
48	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 form	amod
49	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 independent	obl
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 independent	cop
51	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 romances	acl:relcl
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 each	case
53	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	51 independent	obl
54	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 each	fixed
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 commencement	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Dutch MS.			century	of the commencement and a condensed rendering of a number of Arthurian romances; a condensed rendering of a number of Arthurian romances conj	tree rules
2	appear	present						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	represent	to-infinitive		a compilation				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot compilation=Theme
4	make	present · perfect · passive		Thomas Sir			which obl; us obj; familiar property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary we=Product
5	condense	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is	past	Arthurian romances		commencement's original form		of each; independent property	tree rules
7	render			a number of Arthurian romances				nom rendering «communication transitive»: of=patient
8	form		commencement					nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 31

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 31