Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 55
During this quest Agloval visits his mother, sees Perceval, and brings him to court (_cf.
Who acts: Agloval · What happens: visit, see, bring · To what, where: mother, Perceval, quest, court
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 (Agloval), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 quest | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 quest | det |
| 3 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 visits | obl |
| 4 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 visits | nsubj |
| 5 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 visits | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sees | punct |
| 9 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 visits | conj |
| 10 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sees | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brings | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brings | cc |
| 13 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 visits | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 brings | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 court | case |
| 16 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brings | obl |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 cf | punct |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 cf | punct |
| 19 | cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 court | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 visits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present | Agloval | quest's mother | during this quest | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | see | present | Agloval not said here | Perceval | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer perceval=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bring | present | Agloval not said here | quest | court and cf | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to court=Destination |
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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