Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 37
_ This should be compared with the account of Gamuret's wooing and desertion of the Moorish queen, Belakane, in Book I. of the _Parzival_; also with the meeting of the unknown brothers in Book XV. of the same poem.
Who acts: Gamuret · What happens: compare, account, woo, desert · To what, where: This, Book I., wooing, Moorish queen
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 (Gamuret), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 compared | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 compared | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 compared | aux:pass |
| 5 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 account | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 account | det |
| 8 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 compared | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wooing | case |
| 10 | Gamuret | Gamuret | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wooing | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Gamuret | case |
| 12 | wooing | wooing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 account | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 desertion | cc |
| 14 | desertion | desertion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wooing | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 queen | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 queen | det |
| 17 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 queen | amod |
| 18 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 desertion | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Belakane | punct |
| 20 | Belakane | Belakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 queen | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 I. | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 I. | case |
| 23 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 I. | compound |
| 24 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 compared | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Parzival | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Parzival | det |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 Parzival | punct |
| 28 | Parzival | Parzival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 I. | nmod |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 I. | punct |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 meeting | punct |
| 31 | also | also | ADV | _ | 34 meeting | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 meeting | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 meeting | det |
| 34 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 compared | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 brothers | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 brothers | det |
| 37 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 brothers | amod |
| 38 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 meeting | nmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 Book | case |
| 40 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 brothers | nmod |
| 41 | XV | XV | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Book | flat |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 meeting | punct |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 poem | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 poem | det |
| 45 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 poem | amod |
| 46 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 meeting | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 compared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | should · passive | This | Book I. of the Parzival | with the account of Gamuret's wooing and desertion of the Moorish queen; with the meeting of the unknown brothers in Book of the same poem | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with account=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | account | Gamuret's wooing and desertion of the Moorish queen | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | woo | Gamuret | nom wooing «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | desert | the Moorish queen | nom desertion «act 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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