Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 27
Sir Agloval forthwith made known to his uncle and to Sir Perceval the true tale of his doings, and how that his son had come hither.
Who acts: Sir, son, doings · What happens: make, know, come, tell · 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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, son, doings), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 2 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 made | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 uncle | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tale | cc |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Perceval | case |
| 11 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Perceval | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tale | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tale | det |
| 14 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tale | amod |
| 15 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 uncle | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 doings | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 doings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | doings | doing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tale | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 come | cc |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 come | advmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 made | conj |
| 27 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Sir | forthwith property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | Sir not said here | to Sir's uncle and the true tale to Perceval Sir of Sir's doings | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | Sir's son | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell | Sir's doings | nom tale «communication 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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