Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 10
The references in the poem before us are the most copious and explicit, but we also find the same accomplishment referred to in the romance of _Lancelot et le cerf au pied blanc_ (D. L. vol. ii.
Who acts: references, we, et, Lancelot · What happens: be, find, refer, pi, romance · To what, where: same accomplishment, romance, Lancelot
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Amen. Notes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (references, we, et, Lancelot), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 references | det |
| 2 | references | reference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 copious | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 poem | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 poem | det |
| 5 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 references | nmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 poem | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 copious | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 copious | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 copious | advmod |
| 11 | copious | copious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 explicit | cc |
| 13 | explicit | explicit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 copious | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 find | cc |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 find | advmod |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 copious | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 accomplishment | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 accomplishment | amod |
| 21 | accomplishment | accomplishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 22 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 accomplishment | acl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 referred | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 romance | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 romance | det |
| 26 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Lancelot | case |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 of | punct |
| 29 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 romance | nmod |
| 30 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 34 pied | nsubj |
| 31 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 au | compound |
| 32 | cerf | cerf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 au | compound |
| 33 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pied | nsubj |
| 34 | pied | pi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Lancelot | acl:relcl |
| 35 | blanc | blanc | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 pied | xcomp |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | discourse |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 L. | punct |
| 38 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 L. | compound |
| 39 | L. | L. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 copious | parataxis |
| 40 | vol. | vol. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 L. | list |
| 41 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 40 vol. | flat |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 copious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the references in the poem before us | D. L. vol. parataxis; copious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the references in the poem before us not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | find | present | we | the same accomplishment | the romance of Lancelot | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accomplishment=Topic | |||
| 4 | refer | participle | the same accomplishment not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pi | past | et | Lancelot not said here | le cerf au nsubj; blanc property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | romance | Lancelot | nom romance «state 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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