Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 69
And thereof did the tale wax great; how that he should achieve the quest of the Grail, and all the adventures, small and great, which appertained to the Round Table, for 'twas said that he should sit in the Perilous Seat, wherein durst never man sit.
Who acts: hero, twas, man, Grail · What happens: do, achieve, appertain, say, sit, not sit · To what, where: tale wax, quest, Perilous Seat · 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, twas, man, Grail), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 did | cc |
| 2 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wax | det |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wax | compound |
| 6 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 achieve | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 achieve | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 achieve | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 achieve | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 achieve | aux |
| 13 | achieve | achieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 quest | det |
| 15 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 achieve | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Grail | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Grail | det |
| 18 | Grail | grail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quest | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 small | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 small | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 adventures | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 adventures | det |
| 23 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 small | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 adventures | punct |
| 25 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 great | cc |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 small | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 appertained | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 appertained | nsubj |
| 30 | appertained | appertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 small | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 Table | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Table | det |
| 33 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Table | compound |
| 34 | Table | Table | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 appertained | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 said | punct |
| 36 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 39 said | mark |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 said | punct |
| 38 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 said | nsubj |
| 39 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 appertained | conj |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 sit | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 sit | nsubj |
| 42 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 sit | aux |
| 43 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 said | ccomp |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 Seat | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Seat | det |
| 46 | Perilous | perilous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Seat | amod |
| 47 | Seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sit | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 sit | punct |
| 49 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 53 sit | advmod |
| 50 | durst | durst | ADV | _ | 53 sit | advmod |
| 51 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 53 sit | advmod |
| 52 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 sit | nsubj |
| 53 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 sit | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the tale wax | great, thereof property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | achieve | should | hero | the quest of the Grail | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quest=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | appertain | past | to the Round Table; which nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | twas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sit | should | hero | the Perilous Seat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location | ||||
| 6 | not sit | infinitive | man | durst, wherein property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | quest | the Grail | nom quest «cognition 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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