Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 60
It is, I think, noticeable that the romance containing this feature, the _Parzival_, also, contrary to the _Early History_ versions, connects him with the Grail through his mother, instead of through his father.
Who acts: It, romance · What happens: be, contain, connect · To what, where: feature, versions, Perceval
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, romance), 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 | 5 think | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 noticeable | punct |
| 7 | noticeable | noticeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 think | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 containing | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 romance | det |
| 10 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 containing | nsubj |
| 11 | containing | contain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 noticeable | advcl |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 feature | det |
| 13 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 containing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Parzival | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Parzival | det |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Parzival | punct |
| 17 | Parzival | Parzival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 noticeable | obl |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 noticeable | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 contrary | punct |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 contrary | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 contrary | punct |
| 22 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 think | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 History | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 History | det |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 History | punct |
| 26 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 History | amod |
| 27 | History | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 contrary | obl |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 versions | punct |
| 29 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 contrary | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 connects | punct |
| 31 | connects | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | parataxis |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 connects | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 Grail | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Grail | det |
| 35 | Grail | grail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 connects | obl |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 38 mother | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 mother | nmod:poss |
| 38 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 connects | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 father | punct |
| 40 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 44 father | case |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 instead | fixed |
| 42 | through | through | ADP | _ | 44 father | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 father | nmod:poss |
| 44 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 connects | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | I nsubj; think property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contain | gerund | the romance | this feature | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot feature=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | versions | to the Early History | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | connect | present | Perceval | with the Grail; through Perceval's mother; Perceval's father conj | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient with grail=Co-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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