Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 19
_ Arthur's reproof to Kay is a reference to the well-known adventure related both by Chrétien and Wolfram and found moreover in the _Peredur_.
Who acts: reproof, Chrétien, _ Arthur · What happens: be, know, find, reproof · To what, where: reference, Peredur
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 (reproof, Chrétien, _ Arthur), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Arthur | compound |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reproof | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Arthur | case |
| 4 | reproof | reproof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reference | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Kay | case |
| 6 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reproof | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 reference | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 reference | det |
| 9 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 adventure | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 adventure | det |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 known | advmod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 well | punct |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 adventure | amod |
| 15 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reference | nmod |
| 16 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 adventure | amod |
| 17 | both | both | ADV | _ | 19 Chrétien | advmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Chrétien | case |
| 19 | Chrétien | Chrétien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 related | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Wolfram | cc |
| 21 | Wolfram | Wolfram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Chrétien | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 found | cc |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Chrétien | acl:relcl |
| 24 | moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 23 found | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Peredur | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Peredur | det |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 Peredur | punct |
| 28 | Peredur | Peredur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 found | obl |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 Peredur | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reference | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | _ Arthur's reproof to Kay | a reference | to the known adventure | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | find | past | Chrétien and Wolfram not said here | the Peredur | moreover property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | reproof | _ Arthur | to Kay | nom reproof «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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