Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 71
Alike as a representative of a lost tradition, and for its own intrinsic merit it has seemed to me, though perhaps inferior in literary charm to the romances previously published in this series, to be yet not unworthy of inclusion among them.
Who acts: Romance · What happens: lose, have, seem, publish, not be · To what, where: own intrinsic merit, me, romances, series
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 (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 | Alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 representative | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 representative | det |
| 4 | representative | representative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Alike | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tradition | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tradition | det |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tradition | amod |
| 8 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 representative | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seemed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seemed | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 merit | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 merit | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 merit | amod |
| 14 | intrinsic | intrinsic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 merit | amod |
| 15 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seemed | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 merit | acl:relcl |
| 18 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 seemed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 inferior | punct |
| 22 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 24 inferior | mark |
| 23 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 24 inferior | advmod |
| 24 | inferior | inferior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 seemed | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 charm | case |
| 26 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 charm | amod |
| 27 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 inferior | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 romances | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 romances | det |
| 30 | romances | romance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 inferior | obl |
| 31 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 32 published | advmod |
| 32 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 romances | acl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 series | case |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 series | det |
| 35 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 published | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 unworthy | punct |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 unworthy | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 unworthy | cop |
| 39 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 41 unworthy | advmod |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 unworthy | advmod |
| 41 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 inferior | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 inclusion | case |
| 43 | inclusion | inclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 unworthy | obl |
| 44 | among | among | ADP | _ | 45 them | case |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 inclusion | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | Romance | Romance's own intrinsic merit not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merit=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | me | for Romance's own intrinsic merit | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | publish | participle | the romances not said here | this series | previously property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | not is | to-infinitive | yet | of inclusion among Adventures; unworthy 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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