Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 43
1177 et seq.) we find a similar situation, complicated by the fact that Yvain (the slayer) protected by a magic ring is invisible to the bystanders.
Who acts: 1177 et seq, Yvain · What happens: find, complicate, protect, be · To what, where: similar situation, slayer, fact
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 (1177 et seq, Yvain), 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 | 1177 | 1177 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 seq | nummod |
| 2 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 seq | compound |
| 3 | seq | seq | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | nsubj |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seq | punct |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 seq | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 situation | det |
| 9 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 situation | amod |
| 10 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 complicated | punct |
| 12 | complicated | complicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 situation | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 fact | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fact | det |
| 15 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 complicated | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 invisible | mark |
| 17 | Yvain | Yvain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 invisible | nsubj |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 slayer | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 slayer | det |
| 20 | slayer | slayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Yvain | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 slayer | punct |
| 22 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 slayer | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 ring | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ring | det |
| 25 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ring | amod |
| 26 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 protected | obl |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 invisible | cop |
| 28 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fact | acl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 bystanders | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bystanders | det |
| 31 | bystanders | bystander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 invisible | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | 1177 et seq | a similar situation | we nsubj | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Topic | |||
| 2 | complicate | participle | a similar situation not said here | by the fact | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | protect | participle | the slayer not said here | by a magic ring | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Yvain | the fact not said here | to the bystanders; invisible 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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