Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 42
In Chretien de Troyes' _Chevalier au lion_ (ll.
What happens: de · To what, where: Chevalier au lion, Chretien
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Chretien | case |
| 2 | Chretien | Chretien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 de | obl |
| 3 | de | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Troyes | troy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lion | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 Troyes | case |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 lion | punct |
| 7 | Chevalier | Chevalier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lion | compound |
| 8 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lion | compound |
| 9 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 de | obj |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 lion | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 ll | punct |
| 12 | ll | ll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lion | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 de | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | de | past | Troyes's Chevalier au lion and ll | Chretien | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/42/