Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 57

Further, judging from these stories it would seem probable that the requisite modification began with the earlier generation, _i.e._, Perceval himself still retaining traces of his secular and folk-tale origin, while his father and mother have already been brought under the influence of the ecclesiasticised Grail tradition.

Who acts: it, requisite modification, Perceval · What happens: judge, seem, begin, retain, bring, ecclesiasticis · To what, where: stories, traces, father, influence

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 (it, requisite modification, Perceval), 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	Further	further	ADV	_	3 judging	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Further	punct
3	judging	judge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 seem	advcl
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 stories	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 stories	det
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 judging	obl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seem	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 seem	aux
9	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seem	xcomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 began	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 modification	det
13	requisite	requisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 modification	amod
14	modification	modification	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 probable	advcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 generation	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 generation	det
18	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 generation	amod
19	generation	generation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 i.e.	punct
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 i.e.	punct
22	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	9 seem	obl
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 i.e.	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 retaining	punct
25	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 retaining	nsubj
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	25 Perceval	nmod:unmarked
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 retaining	advmod
28	retaining	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 seem	conj
29	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 retaining	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	37 origin	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 origin	nmod:poss
32	secular	secular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 origin	amod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 origin	cc
34	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tale	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 folk	punct
36	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 origin	compound
37	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 traces	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 brought	punct
39	while	while	SCONJ	_	47 brought	mark
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 father	nmod:poss
41	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 brought	nsubj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 mother	cc
43	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 father	conj
44	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 brought	aux
45	already	already	ADV	_	47 brought	advmod
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 brought	aux:pass
47	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 retaining	parataxis
48	under	under	ADP	_	50 influence	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 influence	det
50	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 brought	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	55 tradition	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 tradition	det
53	ecclesiasticised	ecclesiasticis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 tradition	amod
54	Grail	grail	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 tradition	compound
55	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 influence	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	gerund			this stories		further property	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
2	seem	would	it				probable property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	the requisite modification			with the earlier generation		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with generation=Subeventuality
4	retain	gerund	Perceval Perceval	traces of Perceval's secular tale origin		still		tree rules
5	bring	present · perfect · passive		Perceval's father and mother	the influence of the ecclesiasticised Grail tradition			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
6	ecclesiasticis	participle						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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 57

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 57