Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 53
It is easy to understand why the hero ceased to be considered Perceval's son--the opening lines of the poem describe the situation perfectly; but I do not think it has been sufficiently realised that precisely the same causes which would operate to the suppression of this relationship would equally operate to the suppression of that of the _Parzival_.
Who acts: hero, opening lines, I, it, same causes, relationship · What happens: be, understand, cease, consider, describe, not think · To what, where: son, situation, suppression, that · 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 (hero, opening lines, I, it), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 easy | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 easy | cop |
| 3 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 understand | mark |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 easy | csubj |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 ceased | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hero | det |
| 8 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ceased | nsubj |
| 9 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 considered | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 considered | aux:pass |
| 12 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ceased | ccomp |
| 13 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Perceval | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 considered | xcomp |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 lines | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lines | det |
| 18 | opening | opening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lines | amod |
| 19 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 son | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 poem | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 poem | det |
| 22 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lines | nmod |
| 23 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 lines | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 situation | det |
| 25 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 describe | obj |
| 26 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 23 describe | advmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 think | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 think | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 think | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 think | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 think | advmod |
| 32 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 easy | parataxis |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 realised | nsubj |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 realised | aux |
| 35 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 realised | cop |
| 36 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 37 realised | advmod |
| 37 | realised | realise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 think | ccomp |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 operate | mark |
| 39 | precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 42 causes | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 causes | det |
| 41 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 causes | amod |
| 42 | causes | cause | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 operate | nsubj |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 operate | nsubj |
| 44 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 operate | aux |
| 45 | operate | operate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 realised | ccomp |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 suppression | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 suppression | det |
| 48 | suppression | suppression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 operate | obl |
| 49 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 54 operate | mark |
| 50 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 relationship | det |
| 51 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 operate | nsubj |
| 52 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 operate | aux |
| 53 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 54 operate | advmod |
| 54 | operate | operate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 suppression | acl |
| 55 | to | to | ADP | _ | 57 suppression | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 suppression | det |
| 57 | suppression | suppression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 operate | obl |
| 58 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 that | case |
| 59 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 57 suppression | nmod |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 63 Parzival | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 Parzival | det |
| 62 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 63 Parzival | punct |
| 63 | Parzival | Parzival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 that | nmod |
| 64 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 think | punct |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | understand | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | cease | past | the hero | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | consider | to-infinitive · passive | the hero not said here | Perceval's son the opening lines of the poem | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S» | ||||
| 5 | describe | infinitive | the opening lines of the poem not said here | the situation | perfectly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent situation=Theme | |||
| 6 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | present · perfect | it | realise, sufficiently property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | operate | would | the same causes | to the suppression; which nsubj | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | operate | would | this relationship | the suppression not said here | to the suppression of that of the Parzival; equally property | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme suppression=Attribute | |||
| 10 | suppress | that of the Parzival | nom suppression «process 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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