Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 49

To reconstruct the original story it would be necessary not merely to eliminate all mention of Agloval, as suggested by M. Gaston Paris, but the Grail references would also require modification.

Who acts: Grail · What happens: reconstruct, be, not eliminate, suggest, reference, require · To what, where: original story, mention, modification, Agloval

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 (Grail), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 reconstruct	mark
2	reconstruct	reconstruct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 necessary	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reconstruct	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 necessary	expl
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 necessary	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 necessary	cop
9	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 eliminate	advmod
11	merely	merely	ADV	_	13 eliminate	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eliminate	mark
13	eliminate	eliminate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 necessary	csubj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 mention	det
15	mention	mention	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eliminate	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Agloval	case
17	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 mention	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 suggested	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 suggested	mark
20	suggested	suggest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 eliminate	advcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 Gaston	case
22	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Gaston	compound
23	Gaston	Gaston	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 suggested	obl:agent
24	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Gaston	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 references	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 references	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Grail	det
28	Grail	grail	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 references	nsubj
29	references	reference	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 eliminate	parataxis
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 require	aux
31	also	also	ADV	_	32 require	advmod
32	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 references	ccomp
33	modification	modification	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 require	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 necessary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reconstruct	to-infinitive		the original story		tree rules
2	is	would			necessary property	tree rules
3	not eliminate	to-infinitive		all mention of Agloval	merely property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mention=Patient
4	suggest speech: suggest	participle			M. Gaston obl:agent	vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	reference	present	the Grail			tree rules
6	require	would	the Grail not said here	modification		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme modification=Precondition
7	mention			Agloval		nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 49

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 49