Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 26

Gawain was from the first the adventurous hero, _par excellence_ of the cycle, but I know no other instance in which this characteristic is so quaintly and forcibly expressed.

Who acts: Gawain, I, characteristic · What happens: be, know · To what, where: first adventurous hero, other instance

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 (Gawain, I, characteristic), 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	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hero	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hero	cop
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 hero	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hero	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 hero	amod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hero	det
7	adventurous	adventurous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hero	amod
8	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 excellence	punct
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 excellence	punct
11	par	par	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 excellence	amod
12	excellence	excellence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hero	conj
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 excellence	punct
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cycle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cycle	det
16	cycle	cycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 excellence	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 know	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 know	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
20	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hero	conj
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 instance	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 instance	amod
23	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 know	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 expressed	obl
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 characteristic	det
27	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 expressed	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 expressed	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 quaintly	advmod
30	quaintly	quaintly	ADV	_	33 expressed	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 expressed	cc
32	forcibly	forcibly	ADV	_	33 expressed	advmod
33	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 instance	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hero	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Gawain	the first adventurous hero and par excellence of the cycle		par excellence of the cycle conj	tree rules
2	know	present	I	no other instance			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer instance=Stimulus
3	is	present	this characteristic		no other instance	express, forcibly, quaintly property	tree rules

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 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 26