Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 38
It is perhaps worth noticing as indicative of the source of the tradition that Wolfram distinctly states that his Moor speaks in _French_.
Who acts: meeting, Wolfram, Moor · What happens: be, notice, state, speak · To what, where: _ · 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 (meeting, Wolfram, Moor), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 worth | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worth | cop |
| 3 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 worth | advmod |
| 4 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | noticing | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 worth | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 indicative | case |
| 7 | indicative | indicative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noticing | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 source | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 source | det |
| 10 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 indicative | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tradition | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tradition | det |
| 13 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 source | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 states | mark |
| 15 | Wolfram | Wolfram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 states | nsubj |
| 16 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 17 states | advmod |
| 17 | states | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worth | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 speaks | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Moor | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 speaks | nsubj |
| 21 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 states | ccomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 _ | case |
| 23 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 speaks | obl |
| 24 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 _ | flat |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 _ | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | meeting | perhaps, worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | notice | gerund | meeting not said here | as indicative of the source of the tradition | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | state speech: other | present | Wolfram | distinctly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | present | Wolfram's Moor | _ | 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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