Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 73
Here will I leave this tale and speak further concerning the Grail, and the winning thereof.
Who acts: I · What happens: leave, speak, concern, win · To what, where: tale, Grail · 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 (I), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 leave | advmod |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tale | det |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 speak | cc |
| 8 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | conj |
| 9 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 concerning | advmod |
| 10 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 speak | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Grail | det |
| 12 | Grail | grail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 concerning | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 winning | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 winning | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 winning | det |
| 16 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 leave | advcl |
| 17 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 16 winning | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | future | I | this tale | here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | I not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | concern | gerund | I not said here | the Grail | far property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus grail=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | win | gerund | I not said here | thereof property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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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