Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 74
_Herein doth the adventure tell of a knight who was named Morien.
What happens: do, name · To what, where: adventure tell, knight
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: 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 doth | punct |
| 2 | Herein | herein | ADV | _ | 3 doth | advmod |
| 3 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tell | det |
| 5 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | compound |
| 6 | tell | tell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 doth | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 knight | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 knight | det |
| 9 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 named | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 named | aux:pass |
| 12 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 knight | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 named | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 doth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the adventure tell of a knight | herein property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tell=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | name | past · passive | a knight | Morien xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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