Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 16
This is one of the points of variance between Chrétien and Wolfram which, slight in itself, offers when examined valuable evidence as to a difference of sources.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, offer, examine, point · To what, where: one, examined valuable evidence, variance
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 points | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 points | det |
| 6 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 variance | case |
| 8 | variance | variance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 points | nmod |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 Chrétien | case |
| 10 | Chrétien | Chrétien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 variance | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Wolfram | cc |
| 12 | Wolfram | Wolfram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Chrétien | conj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 slight | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slight | punct |
| 15 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 points | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 itself | case |
| 17 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 slight | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 offers | punct |
| 19 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | parataxis |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 examined | advmod |
| 21 | examined | examine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 evidence | amod |
| 22 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 evidence | amod |
| 23 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 offers | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 difference | case |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 difference | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 difference | det |
| 27 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 evidence | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sources | case |
| 29 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 difference | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | one | of the points of variance between Chrétien and Wolfram | tree rules | |||
| 2 | offer | present | examined valuable evidence | as a difference of sources | vn volunteer-95.4 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent evidence=Pivot as difference=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | examine | participle | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | point | variance between Chrétien and Wolfram | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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