Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 55
The _Early History_ of that talisman, as related by Robert de Borron, once generally accepted, the relationship of _brother_ was as impossible as that of _son_.
What happens: relate, accept, be · To what, where: relationship, Early History _
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 _ | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 _ | punct |
| 3 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 _ | amod |
| 4 | History | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 _ | compound |
| 5 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 talisman | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 talisman | det |
| 8 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 _ | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 related | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 related | mark |
| 11 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 _ | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Robert | case |
| 13 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 related | obl:agent |
| 14 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Robert | flat |
| 15 | Borron | Borron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Robert | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 accepted | punct |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 accepted | advmod |
| 18 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 19 accepted | advmod |
| 19 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 related | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 relationship | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 relationship | det |
| 22 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 accepted | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 brother | case |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 of | punct |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 relationship | nmod |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 impossible | punct |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 impossible | cop |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 impossible | advmod |
| 29 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 relationship | parataxis |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 that | case |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 impossible | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 son | case |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 of | punct |
| 34 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 that | nmod |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 impossible | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 _ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | participle | Robert obl:agent | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | accept | participle | the relationship of brother | generally, once property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | as that of son; impossible property | 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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