Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 52
Quoth Sir Perceval, "Then wherefore delay?
To what, where: delay
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 delay | nsubj |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Quoth | flat |
| 3 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Quoth | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quoth | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 delay | punct |
| 6 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 delay | advmod |
| 7 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 delay | advmod |
| 8 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 delay | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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