Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 46
Was it the Dutch translator or his source who substituted Agloval, Perceval's brother, for the tradition which made Perceval himself the father of the hero?
Who acts: story, source, tradition · What happens: be, substitute, make · To what, where: Dutch translator, Agloval, father, Perceval
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 (story, source, tradition), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 translator | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 translator | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 translator | det |
| 4 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 translator | amod |
| 5 | translator | translator | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 source | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 source | nmod:poss |
| 8 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 translator | conj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 substituted | nsubj |
| 10 | substituted | substitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 source | acl:relcl |
| 11 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 substituted | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brother | punct |
| 13 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Perceval | case |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Agloval | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tradition | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 tradition | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tradition | det |
| 19 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Agloval | appos |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 made | nsubj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tradition | acl:relcl |
| 22 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 made | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 father | det |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hero | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hero | det |
| 28 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 father | nmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 translator | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | story | the Dutch translator or volume's source | volume's source conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | substitute | past | volume's source | Agloval | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Theme agloval=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the tradition | the father of the hero | Perceval | volume obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset perceval=Beneficiary father=Product |
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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