Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 47
This is evidently the hermit whom Lancelot in the _Queste_ finds dead under circumstances agreeing with those here hinted at.
Who acts: This, hermit, circumstances · What happens: be, find, agree, hint · To what, where: hermit, circumstances
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 (This, hermit, circumstances), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 hermit | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hermit | cop |
| 3 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 5 hermit | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hermit | det |
| 5 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finds | nsubj |
| 6 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 Lancelot | punct |
| 7 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hermit | appos |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Queste | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queste | det |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Queste | punct |
| 11 | Queste | Queste | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lancelot | nmod |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lancelot | punct |
| 13 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 finds | xcomp |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 circumstances | case |
| 16 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 finds | obl |
| 17 | agreeing | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 circumstances | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 those | case |
| 19 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 agreeing | obl |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 hinted | advmod |
| 21 | hinted | hint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 those | acl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 hinted | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the hermit | Lancelot in the Queste appos; evidently property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | present | the hermit | circumstances | dead property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | gerund | circumstances not said here | with circumstances | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with that=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | hint speech: other | participle | here | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: 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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