Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 77
And of a Moorish princess was he begotten at that time when Agloval sought far and wide for Lancelot, who was lost, as ye have read here afore.
Who acts: Agloval · What happens: beget, seek, lose, read · To what, where: Perceval, Lancelot, ye
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 (Agloval), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 begotten | cc |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 princess | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 4 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 princess | amod |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 begotten | obl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 begotten | aux:pass |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 begotten | nsubj |
| 8 | begotten | beget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 begotten | obl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 sought | advmod |
| 13 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sought | nsubj |
| 14 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 begotten | advcl |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 sought | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wide | cc |
| 17 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 far | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Lancelot | case |
| 19 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sought | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lost | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 lost | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | aux:pass |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Lancelot | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 read | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 read | mark |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 read | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 read | aux |
| 28 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 lost | advcl |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 read | advmod |
| 30 | afore | afore | ADV | _ | 28 read | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 begotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beget | past · passive | Perceval | time | of a Moorish princess | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | seek | past | Agloval | for Lancelot; far property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for lancelot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | Lancelot | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | read | present · perfect · passive | ye | here | afore property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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