Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 54
Perceval, the virgin winner of the Grail, could not have a _liaison_ with a Moorish princess, but neither could Perceval's father, the direct descendant of Joseph of Arimathea, and hereditary holder of the Grail.
What happens: not have · To what, where: _ liaison
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: 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 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 have | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 winner | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 winner | det |
| 4 | virgin | virgin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 winner | amod |
| 5 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Perceval | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Grail | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Grail | det |
| 8 | Grail | grail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 winner | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perceval | punct |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 have | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 liaison | det |
| 14 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 liaison | amod |
| 15 | liaison | liaison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 princess | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 princess | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 19 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 princess | amod |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 father | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 father | cc |
| 23 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 27 father | advmod |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 father | aux |
| 25 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Perceval | case |
| 27 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 princess | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 descendant | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 descendant | det |
| 30 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 descendant | amod |
| 31 | descendant | descendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 father | appos |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Joseph | case |
| 33 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 descendant | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Arimathea | case |
| 35 | Arimathea | Arimathea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Joseph | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 holder | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 holder | cc |
| 38 | hereditary | hereditary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 holder | amod |
| 39 | holder | holder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 princess | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Grail | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Grail | det |
| 42 | Grail | grail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 holder | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | could | a _ liaison | Perceval vocative; a Moorish princess but Perceval's father and hereditary holder of the Grail parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liaison=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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