Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 59
The fact that Perceval regains possession of the heritage of which he has, before his birth, been deprived is recorded in certain of the _Perceval_ romances; the _Parzival_ of Wolfram von Eschenbach, the prose _Perceval li Gallois_, and the English _Sir Percyvelle of Galles_, but it is not found in Chrétien.
Who acts: Perceval, Parzival · What happens: regain, have, deprive, record, not find, possess · To what, where: possession, birth, Chrétien, Parzival, heritage
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 (Perceval, Parzival), 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 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Parzival | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 regains | mark |
| 4 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 regains | nsubj |
| 5 | regains | regain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fact | acl |
| 6 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 regains | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 heritage | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heritage | det |
| 9 | heritage | heritage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 possession | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 has | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 heritage | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 recorded | punct |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 recorded | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 birth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 recorded | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 deprived | punct |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 deprived | aux:pass |
| 20 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 birth | acl:relcl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 recorded | aux:pass |
| 22 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 has | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 certain | case |
| 24 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 recorded | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 romances | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 romances | det |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 romances | punct |
| 28 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 romances | compound |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 romances | punct |
| 30 | romances | romance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 certain | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Parzival | det |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 Parzival | punct |
| 34 | Parzival | Parzival | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 Parzival | punct |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Wolfram | case |
| 37 | Wolfram | Wolfram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Parzival | nmod |
| 38 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 34 Parzival | appos |
| 39 | Eschenbach | Eschenbach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 von | flat |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 prose | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 prose | det |
| 42 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Parzival | conj |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 45 li | punct |
| 44 | Perceval | perceval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 li | amod |
| 45 | li | li | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Parzival | appos |
| 46 | Gallois | Gallois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 li | appos |
| 47 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 46 Gallois | punct |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 Percyvelle | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 Percyvelle | cc |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 English | det |
| 51 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Percyvelle | amod |
| 52 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 51 English | punct |
| 53 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Percyvelle | nmod:desc |
| 54 | Percyvelle | Percyvelle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Parzival | appos |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 Galles | case |
| 56 | Galles | Galles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Percyvelle | nmod |
| 57 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 54 Percyvelle | punct |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 found | punct |
| 59 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 63 found | cc |
| 60 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 found | nsubj:pass |
| 61 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 63 found | aux:pass |
| 62 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 63 found | advmod |
| 63 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 Parzival | acl:relcl |
| 64 | in | in | ADP | _ | 65 Chrétien | case |
| 65 | Chrétien | Chrétien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 63 found | obl |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 Parzival | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regain | present | Perceval | possession of the heritage | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Perceval | of the heritage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | deprive | participle · passive | Perceval's birth not said here | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | record | present · passive | Perceval's birth | certain property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not find | present · passive | the Parzival the fact of Wolfram and the prose not said here | birth | Chrétien | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 7 | possess | the heritage | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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