Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 21
The allusion to this incident, which is not related in the prose _Lancelot_, shows clearly that while, on the whole, he is harmonising his romance with the indications of the later traditions, the writer is yet quite conversant with the earlier forms.
Who acts: allusion, writer · What happens: not be, show, harmonis, be, romance, indicate · To what, where: prose, romance, later traditions
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 (allusion, writer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 allusion | det |
| 2 | allusion | allusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 incident | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 incident | det |
| 5 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 allusion | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 related | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 related | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 related | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 related | advmod |
| 10 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 allusion | amod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 prose | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prose | det |
| 13 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 related | obl |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 prose | punct |
| 15 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 prose | appos |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lancelot | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 allusion | punct |
| 18 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 21 while | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 while | det |
| 21 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shows | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 whole | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 whole | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 whole | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shows | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 harmonising | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 harmonising | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 harmonising | aux |
| 29 | harmonising | harmonis | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 whole | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 romance | nmod:poss |
| 31 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 harmonising | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 indications | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 indications | det |
| 34 | indications | indication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 harmonising | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 traditions | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 traditions | det |
| 37 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 traditions | amod |
| 38 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 indications | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 conversant | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 writer | det |
| 41 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 conversant | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 conversant | cop |
| 43 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 45 conversant | advmod |
| 44 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 45 conversant | advmod |
| 45 | conversant | conversant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shows | conj |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 forms | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 forms | det |
| 48 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 49 forms | amod |
| 49 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 conversant | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | the allusion to this incident | the prose | related property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | show | present | the allusion to this incident | while | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | harmonis | present · progressive | allusion | allusion's romance | with the indications of the later traditions | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | the writer | yet | with the earlier forms; conversant property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | romance | allusion | nom romance «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | indicate | the later traditions | nom indication «communication 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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