Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 59
Thus I am of opinion that the Moor as Perceval's brother is likely to be an earlier conception than the Moor as Perceval's son.
Who acts: I, Moor · What happens: be · To what, where: earlier conception
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 (I, Moor), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 opinion | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 opinion | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 opinion | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 opinion | case |
| 5 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 likely | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moor | det |
| 8 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 likely | nsubj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 brother | case |
| 10 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Perceval | case |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Moor | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 likely | cop |
| 14 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 opinion | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 conception | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 conception | cop |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 conception | det |
| 18 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 conception | amod |
| 19 | conception | conception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 likely | xcomp |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 Moor | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Moor | det |
| 22 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 conception | nmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 son | case |
| 24 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Perceval | case |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Moor | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opinion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | of opinion; thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Moor as Perceval's brother | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the Moor as Perceval's brother not said here | a earlier conception | than the Moor as Perceval's son | 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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