Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 44
The best known instance, however, is probably that of the _Nibelungenlied_ where Kriemhild's suspicions that Hagen is Siegfred's murderer are in this manner verified.
Who acts: suspicions, best known instance, Kriemhild · What happens: know, be, verify, suspect · To what, where: that, murderer, manner
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 (suspicions, best known instance, Kriemhild), 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 | 4 instance | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 instance | amod |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 instance | amod |
| 4 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 verified | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 instance | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 that | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 that | cop |
| 9 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 10 that | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 verified | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Nibelungenlied | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Nibelungenlied | det |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Nibelungenlied | punct |
| 14 | Nibelungenlied | Nibelungenlied | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 verified | obl |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 verified | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 verified | advmod |
| 17 | Kriemhild | Kriemhild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 suspicions | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Kriemhild | case |
| 19 | suspicions | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 verified | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 murderer | nsubj |
| 21 | Hagen | Hagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 murderer | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 murderer | cop |
| 23 | Siegfred | Siegfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 murderer | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Siegfred | case |
| 25 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 suspicions | acl:relcl |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 manner | cop |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 manner | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 manner | det |
| 29 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 verified | nsubj |
| 30 | verified | verify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 verified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | however, probably property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Kriemhild's suspicions | Siegfred's murderer | Hagen nsubj; Siegfred nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | this manner | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | verify | past | the best known instance | of the Nibelungenlied; Kriemhild's suspicions nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | suspect | Kriemhild | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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