Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 37
Most probably, so far as these shorter romances are concerned, the originals would be metrical, not prose versions, as in the case of the _Lancelot_ sections.
Who acts: shorter romances, originals · What happens: be
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 (shorter romances, originals), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 2 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 1 Most | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 far | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Most | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 concerned | mark |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 romances | det |
| 8 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 romances | amod |
| 9 | romances | romance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 concerned | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 concerned | cop |
| 11 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 far | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 metrical | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 originals | det |
| 14 | originals | original | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 metrical | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 metrical | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 metrical | cop |
| 17 | metrical | metrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Most | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 versions | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 versions | advmod |
| 20 | prose | prose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 versions | amod |
| 21 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 metrical | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 case | punct |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 case | case |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 case | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 case | det |
| 26 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 versions | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Lancelot | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Lancelot | det |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 Lancelot | punct |
| 30 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 case | nmod |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 sections | punct |
| 32 | sections | section | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 versions | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Most | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this shorter romances | concerned property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | would | the originals | prose versions as the case of the Lancelot and sections obl; metrical property | tree rules |
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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