Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 75
Some of the books give us to wit that he was Perceval's son, and some say that he was son to Agloval, who was Perceval's brother, so that he was nephew unto that good knight.
Who acts: books, MORIEN, some, son · What happens: give, wit, be, say · To what, where: us, son, Agloval, brother · 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 (books, MORIEN, some, son), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 books | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 books | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 books | det |
| 4 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 wit | mark |
| 8 | wit | wit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 son | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 son | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 son | cop |
| 12 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Perceval | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wit | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 say | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 say | nsubj |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 son | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 son | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 son | cop |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 say | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Agloval | case |
| 24 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 son | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 brother | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 brother | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 brother | cop |
| 28 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 brother | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Perceval | case |
| 30 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 son | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 nephew | punct |
| 32 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 36 nephew | mark |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 so | fixed |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 nephew | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 nephew | cop |
| 36 | nephew | nephew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 say | conj |
| 37 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 40 knight | case |
| 38 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 knight | det |
| 39 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 knight | amod |
| 40 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 nephew | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | some books | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wit | to-infinitive | some books not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | MORIEN | Perceval's son | Perceval nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | MORIEN | son and Perceval's brother | Agloval | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is a | past | son and Perceval's brother | Perceval's brother | Perceval nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 7 | is | past | MORIEN | unto that good knight; nephew 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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