Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 78
_I ween that he who made the tale of Lancelot and set it in rhyme forgot, and was heedless of, the fair adventure of Morien.
Who acts: I, Perceval, rhyme, Lancelot · What happens: ween, make, set, forget, be, tell · To what, where: tale, tell, 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 (I, Perceval, rhyme, Lancelot), 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 ween | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ween | nsubj |
| 3 | ween | ween | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 made | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ween | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tale | det |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Lancelot | case |
| 11 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tale | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 set | obj |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 forgot | mark |
| 16 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forgot | nsubj |
| 17 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 set | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heedless | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 heedless | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heedless | cop |
| 21 | heedless | heedless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ween | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 adventure | case |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 of | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 adventure | det |
| 25 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 adventure | amod |
| 26 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heedless | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Morien | case |
| 28 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 adventure | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ween | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ween | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past | Perceval | the tale of Lancelot | who nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Product | |||
| 3 | set | past | Perceval not said here | tell | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | ||||
| 4 | forget | past | rhyme | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | past | of the fair adventure of Morien; heedless property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | tell | Lancelot | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | adventure | Morien | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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