Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 25
The Middle English poem of _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_ (No. 1 of this Series) speaks of the knight in somewhat similar terms as "the fine father of courtesy."
Who acts: English poem · What happens: speak · To what, where: similar terms · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (English poem), 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 | 4 poem | det |
| 2 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 English | compound |
| 3 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 poem | compound |
| 4 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 speaks | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Gawain | case |
| 6 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Gawain | compound |
| 7 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 poem | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Knight | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Knight | det |
| 11 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Knight | amod |
| 12 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Gawain | conj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Gawain | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 No. | punct |
| 15 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 8 Gawain | appos |
| 16 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 No. | flat |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Series | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 Series | det |
| 19 | Series | Series | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 No. | nmod |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 No. | punct |
| 21 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 knight | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 knight | det |
| 24 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 speaks | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 terms | case |
| 26 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 27 similar | advmod |
| 27 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 terms | amod |
| 28 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 speaks | obl |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 father | case |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 father | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 father | det |
| 32 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 father | amod |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 speaks | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 courtesy | case |
| 35 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 father | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 father | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | the English poem of _ Gawain Sir and the Green Knight | similar terms | of the knight; as the fine father of courtesy | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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