Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 3
Sir Agloval looked upon Morien, and marked right well the fashion of him, and marvelled within himself what manner of knight he might well be who bare such guise.
Who acts: Sir, manner · What happens: look, mark, marvell, be · To what, where: fashion, bare such guise
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, manner), 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 | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 Morien | case |
| 5 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 marked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 marked | cc |
| 8 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 9 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 well | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 fashion | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fashion | det |
| 12 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marked | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fashion | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 marvelled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 marvelled | cc |
| 17 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 19 himself | case |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 marvelled | obl |
| 20 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 21 manner | det |
| 21 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 guise | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 knight | case |
| 23 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 manner | nmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 guise | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 guise | aux |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 guise | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 guise | cop |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 guise | nsubj |
| 29 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 guise | amod |
| 30 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 guise | amod |
| 31 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marvelled | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Sir | upon Morien | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon morien=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mark | past | Sir not said here | the fashion of Sir | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fashion=Destination | ||||
| 3 | marvell | past | Sir not said here | within Sir | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | might | what manner of knight | bare such guise | Sir nsubj; who nsubj; well 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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