Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 12
- where Gawain instructs the physician as to the proper treatment of Lancelot's wounds; and the _Parzival_ of Wolfram von Eschenbach (Book X.
Who acts: Gawain, Lancelot · What happens: instruct, treat, wound · To what, where: physician, wounds
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 (Gawain, 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 | 22825 | 22825 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 where | nummod |
| 2 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 22825 | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 instructs | advmod |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 instructs | nsubj |
| 5 | instructs | instruct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 physician | det |
| 7 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 instructs | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 12 treatment | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 treatment | det |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 treatment | amod |
| 12 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 instructs | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wounds | case |
| 14 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Lancelot | case |
| 16 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 treatment | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 X | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 X | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Parzival | det |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Parzival | punct |
| 21 | Parzival | Parzival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 X | nsubj |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 Wolfram | punct |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Wolfram | case |
| 24 | Wolfram | Wolfram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 X | compound |
| 25 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 24 Wolfram | flat |
| 26 | Eschenbach | Eschenbach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Wolfram | flat |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 Book | punct |
| 28 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 X | compound |
| 29 | X | X | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 instructs | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 instructs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | instruct speech: other | present | Gawain | the physician | as the proper treatment of Lancelot's wounds; Wolfram Book X the Parzival obl | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent physician=Recipient | |||
| 2 | treat | Lancelot's wounds | nom treatment «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | wound | Lancelot | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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