Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 68
It is noticeable that the adventure assigned to him is much less original in character, and told with far less detail than that ascribed to Gawain.
Who acts: story, adventure · What happens: be, assign, tell, ascribe · To what, where: adventure, Lancelot, character, Gawain · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (story, adventure), 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 | 3 noticeable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 noticeable | cop |
| 3 | noticeable | noticeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 original | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 adventure | det |
| 6 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 original | nsubj |
| 7 | assigned | assign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 adventure | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 assigned | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 original | cop |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 less | advmod |
| 12 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 original | advmod |
| 13 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 noticeable | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 character | case |
| 15 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 original | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 noticeable | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 detail | case |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 less | advmod |
| 21 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 detail | amod |
| 22 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | obl |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 that | case |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 detail | nmod |
| 25 | ascribed | ascribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 that | acl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Gawain | case |
| 27 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ascribed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 noticeable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | story | noticeable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assign | participle | the adventure not said here | Lancelot | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to he=Goal | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the adventure | character | less, original property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | participle | with less detail than that | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ascribe | participle | Gawain | 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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