Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 33

[Footnote: _Cf_. my _Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac_; Grimm Library, vol. xii., chapter ix., where a brief summary of the contents of the Dutch _Lancelot_ is given.]

What happens: give · To what, where: brief summary, Legend

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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 Footnote	punct
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Legend	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Cf	punct
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Cf	punct
5	Cf	Cf	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Footnote	appos
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Cf	punct
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Footnote	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 Legend	nmod:poss
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Legend	punct
10	Legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 Lac	case
12	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Lancelot	nmod:desc
13	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Lac	compound
14	du	du	PART	_	13 Lancelot	case
15	Lac	Lac	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Legend	nmod
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Legend	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 Library	punct
18	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Library	compound
19	Library	Library	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Legend	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 xii	punct
21	vol.	vol.	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 xii	compound
22	xii	xii	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Library	appos
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Legend	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ix	punct
25	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ix	compound
26	ix	ix	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Legend	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Legend	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 given	punct
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	43 given	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 summary	det
31	brief	brief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 summary	amod
32	summary	summary	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 given	nsubj:pass
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 contents	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 contents	det
35	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	32 summary	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	40 Lancelot	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Lancelot	det
38	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Lancelot	amod
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 Dutch	punct
40	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 contents	nmod
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 summary	punct
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 given	aux:pass
43	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Legend	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Legend	punct
45	]	]	PUNCT	_	10 Legend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		a brief summary of the contents of the Dutch Lancelot					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 33

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Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 33