Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 4
The brothers vary in number and name, but the most noted are Sir Agloval and Sir Lamorak, who appear to belong to distinct lines of development, Sir Agloval belonging mainly to the _Lancelot_, Sir Lamorak to the _Tristan_ tradition.
Who acts: brothers, Agloval · What happens: vary, note, be, appear, belong · To what, where: number, Agloval
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 (brothers, Agloval), 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 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 vary | nsubj |
| 3 | vary | vary | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 number | case |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vary | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 name | cc |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 number | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 appear | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 appear | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Agloval | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 noted | advmod |
| 12 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 the | acl |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Agloval | cop |
| 14 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Agloval | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 appear | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Sir | cc |
| 17 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Agloval | conj |
| 18 | Lamorak | Lamorak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Sir | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 appear | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 appear | nsubj |
| 21 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 vary | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 belong | mark |
| 23 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 appear | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 lines | case |
| 25 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lines | amod |
| 26 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 belong | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 development | case |
| 28 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lines | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Sir | punct |
| 30 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 appear | vocative |
| 31 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Sir | flat |
| 32 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 appear | xcomp |
| 33 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 32 belonging | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Lancelot | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Lancelot | det |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 Lancelot | punct |
| 37 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 belonging | obl |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 Lancelot | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Lamorak | punct |
| 40 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Lamorak | nmod:desc |
| 41 | Lamorak | Lamorak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Lancelot | conj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 tradition | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 tradition | det |
| 44 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 47 tradition | punct |
| 45 | Tristan | Tristan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 tradition | compound |
| 46 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 45 Tristan | punct |
| 47 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 belonging | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vary | present | the brothers | number and name | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | note | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the Agloval and Sir | Sir nmod:desc | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | appear | present | the Agloval and Sir | Sir vocative; who nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | belong | to-infinitive | the Agloval and Sir not said here | to distinct lines of development | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | belong | gerund | the Agloval and Sir not said here | to the Lancelot and Lamorak Sir; to the Tristan tradition; mainly property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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