Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 2

INTRODUCTION.--In the preface I have dwelt with some fulness on the interesting questions connected with these opening lines; here it will be sufficient to point out that in the earlier versions of the _Perceval_ story the hero is either the only, or the sole surviving, son of his parents.

Who acts: fulness, hero, sole · What happens: dwell, connect, be, point out, survive · To what, where: INTRODUCTION, interesting questions, story

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 (fulness, hero, sole), 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	INTRODUCTION	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dwelt	nsubj:pass
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 INTRODUCTION	punct
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 preface	punct
4	In	in	ADP	_	6 preface	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 preface	det
6	preface	preface	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 INTRODUCTION	conj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 dwelt	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dwelt	aux
9	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 fulness	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 fulness	det
12	fulness	fulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dwelt	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 questions	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 questions	det
15	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 questions	amod
16	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dwelt	obl
17	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 questions	acl
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 lines	case
19	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 lines	det
20	opening	opening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lines	amod
21	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 connected	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 sufficient	punct
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 sufficient	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sufficient	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 sufficient	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 sufficient	cop
27	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dwelt	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 point	mark
29	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sufficient	advcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 point	compound:prt
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 versions	mark
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 versions	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 versions	det
34	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 versions	amod
35	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 point	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 Perceval	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Perceval	det
38	_	_	PUNCT	_	39 Perceval	punct
39	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 versions	nmod
40	_	_	PUNCT	_	41 story	punct
41	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 versions	appos
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 hero	det
43	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 only	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 only	cop
45	either	either	CCONJ	_	47 only	cc:preconj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 only	det
47	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 story	acl:relcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 surviving	punct
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 surviving	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 sole	det
51	sole	sole	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 surviving	nsubj
52	surviving	survive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 only	parataxis
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 son	punct
54	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 surviving	conj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 parents	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 parents	nmod:poss
57	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 son	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dwell	present · perfect · passive		INTRODUCTION and the preface	the interesting questions	with some fulness; I nsubj	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
2	connect	participle		the interesting questions not said here		with this opening lines	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with line=Co-Patient
3	is	future	fulness		here	sufficient property	tree rules
4	point out	to-infinitive	fulness not said here			in the earlier versions of the Perceval	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in version=Theme
5	is	present	the hero	story not said here		only property	tree rules
6	survive	gerund	the sole			son of sole's parents conj	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 2

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 2