Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 39
King Arthur had never a stronghold in the losing of which he had lost so much, and this was not yet lost.
Who acts: King Arthur, Arthur · What happens: have, lose, not lose · To what, where: stronghold, this
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King Arthur, Arthur), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Arthur | compound |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 stronghold | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stronghold | det |
| 6 | stronghold | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 losing | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 losing | det |
| 9 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 had | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lost | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lost | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | aux |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 losing | advcl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 lost | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lost | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lost | cc |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 lost | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | aux:pass |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 lost | advmod |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 23 lost | advmod |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lost | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | King Arthur | a stronghold | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stronghold=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | King Arthur not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect | Arthur | which obl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent of which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | not lose | past · passive | this | yet | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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