Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 47
M. Gaston Paris takes the former view; but I am inclined to think that the alteration was already in the French source.
Who acts: M., alteration · What happens: take, incline, think, be · To what, where: former view, I, French source · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (M., alteration), 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 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | Gaston | Gaston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 M. | flat |
| 3 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 M. | flat |
| 4 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 view | det |
| 6 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 view | amod |
| 7 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 inclined | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 inclined | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 inclined | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 inclined | aux:pass |
| 12 | inclined | incline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 takes | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 inclined | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 source | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 alteration | det |
| 17 | alteration | alteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 source | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 source | cop |
| 19 | already | already | ADV | _ | 23 source | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 source | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 source | det |
| 22 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 source | amod |
| 23 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 think | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | M. | the former view | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme | ||||
| 2 | incline | present · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the alteration | the French source | 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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