Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 51
The reason here alleged for Perceval's failure to find the Grail is that given by Chrétien and Wolfram, and is another indication of the writer's familiarity with the early _Perceval_ story.
Who acts: Chrétien, Perceval · What happens: allege, find, give, be, fail · To what, where: reason, Grail, indication
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 (Chrétien, Perceval), 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 reason | det |
| 2 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 reason | advmod |
| 4 | alleged | allege | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 reason | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 failure | case |
| 6 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 failure | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Perceval | case |
| 8 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 alleged | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 failure | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Grail | det |
| 12 | Grail | grail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux:pass |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 given | mark |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Chrétien | case |
| 17 | Chrétien | Chrétien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Wolfram | cc |
| 19 | Wolfram | Wolfram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Chrétien | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 indication | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 indication | cc |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 indication | cop |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 indication | det |
| 24 | indication | indication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 familiarity | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 writer | det |
| 27 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 familiarity | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 writer | case |
| 29 | familiarity | familiarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 indication | nmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 early | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 early | det |
| 32 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 familiarity | nmod |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 Perceval | punct |
| 34 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 indication | parataxis |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 story | punct |
| 36 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Perceval | appos |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allege speech: other | participle | the reason not said here | for Perceval's failure | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the Grail | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grail=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | present · passive | Chrétien and Wolfram | the reason | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | another indication | of the writer's familiarity with the early; Perceval parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fail | Perceval | nom failure «act intransitive»: 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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