Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 15
It is noticeable that Chrétien de Troyes in the parallel passage of his poem has no such allusion, nor can I recall any passage in the works of that poet which indicates any knowledge, on his part, of this characteristic of Gawain.
Who acts: tradition, Chrétien, parallel passage, I, poet · What happens: be, de, have, recall, indicate, work · To what, where: Troyes, parallel passage, such allusion, passage, works, knowledge
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 (tradition, Chrétien, parallel passage, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 noticeable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 noticeable | cop |
| 3 | noticeable | noticeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 de | mark |
| 5 | Chrétien | Chrétien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 de | nsubj |
| 6 | de | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 noticeable | advcl |
| 7 | Troyes | troy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 de | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 passage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 passage | det |
| 10 | parallel | parallel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 passage | amod |
| 11 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 de | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 poem | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 poem | nmod:poss |
| 14 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obl |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 passage | acl:relcl |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 allusion | det |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 allusion | amod |
| 18 | allusion | allusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 recall | punct |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 recall | cc |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 recall | aux |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 recall | nsubj |
| 23 | recall | recall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 noticeable | parataxis |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 passage | det |
| 25 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 recall | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 works | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 works | det |
| 28 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 passage | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 poet | case |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 poet | det |
| 31 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 works | nmod |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 indicates | nsubj |
| 33 | indicates | indicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 poet | acl:relcl |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 knowledge | det |
| 35 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 indicates | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 part | punct |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 part | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 part | nmod:poss |
| 39 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 recall | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 characteristic | punct |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 characteristic | case |
| 42 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 characteristic | det |
| 43 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 recall | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Gawain | case |
| 45 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 characteristic | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 noticeable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | tradition | noticeable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | de | past | Chrétien | Troyes | the parallel passage | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present | the parallel passage not said here | no such allusion | of Chrétien's poem | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent allusion=Patient | |||
| 4 | recall | can | I | any passage | the works of that poet | of this characteristic of Gawain; Chrétien's part parataxis | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent passage=Theme of characteristic=Source | ||
| 5 | indicate | present | that poet | any knowledge | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot knowledge=Topic | ||||
| 6 | work | that poet | nom work «act 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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