Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 76
Now we find it written for a truth that Perceval and Galahad alike died virgin knights in the quest of the Holy Grail; and for that cause I say of Perceval that in sooth he was not Morien's father, but that rather was Morien his brother's son.
Who acts: we, tell, truth, I, Perceval, Holy Grail · What happens: find, write, die, say, not be, be · To what, where: tell, virgin knights, quest, father, sooth, Morien · 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 (we, tell, truth, I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 find | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 find | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 truth | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 truth | det |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 written | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 died | nsubj |
| 10 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 died | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Galahad | cc |
| 12 | Galahad | Galahad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Perceval | conj |
| 13 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 14 died | advmod |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 truth | acl:relcl |
| 15 | virgin | virgin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 knights | amod |
| 16 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 died | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 quest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 quest | det |
| 19 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 died | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Grail | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Grail | det |
| 22 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 23 Grail | compound |
| 23 | Grail | grail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 quest | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 say | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 say | cc |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 cause | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 cause | det |
| 28 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 say | obl |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 say | nsubj |
| 30 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Perceval | case |
| 32 | Perceval | perceval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 say | obl |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 father | nsubj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 sooth | case |
| 35 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 father | obl |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 father | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 father | cop |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 father | advmod |
| 39 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 father | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 Morien | case |
| 41 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Perceval | acl:relcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 son | punct |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 51 son | cc |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 51 son | mark |
| 45 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 47 Morien | advmod |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 Morien | cop |
| 47 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 brother | compound |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 brother | nmod:poss |
| 49 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 son | nmod:poss |
| 50 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 49 brother | case |
| 51 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 father | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | we | tell | now | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | write | participle | tell not said here | for a truth | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for truth=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | die | past | a truth | virgin knights | the quest of the Holy Grail | Perceval and Galahad nsubj; alike property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | I | for that cause; of Perceval | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not is a | past | Perceval | Morien's father but MORIEN's Morien brother's son | sooth | Morien nmod:poss; MORIEN's Morien brother's son conj | tree rules | ||
| 6 | is a | past | Morien | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | quest | the Holy Grail | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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