Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 6
The _Morien_ story, as I have remarked in the preface, has obviously been modified by the influence of the later _Lancelot_ legend, hence, probably, the _rôle_ assigned to Agloval.
Who acts: I, influence · What happens: remark, modify, assign · To what, where: Morien story, preface, Agloval
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 (I, influence), 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 | 5 story | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
| 3 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 story | compound |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Morien | punct |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 modified | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remarked | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 remarked | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 remarked | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 remarked | aux |
| 10 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 story | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 preface | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 preface | det |
| 13 | preface | preface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remarked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 modified | aux |
| 16 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 18 modified | advmod |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 modified | aux:pass |
| 18 | modified | modify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 influence | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 influence | det |
| 21 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 modified | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 legend | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 later | det |
| 24 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 legend | advmod |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 Lancelot | punct |
| 26 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 legend | compound |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 Lancelot | punct |
| 28 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 influence | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hence | punct |
| 30 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 18 modified | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rôle | punct |
| 32 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 36 rôle | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rôle | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rôle | det |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 rôle | punct |
| 36 | rôle | rôle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 modified | conj |
| 37 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 38 assigned | punct |
| 38 | assigned | assign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 rôle | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 Agloval | case |
| 40 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 assigned | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 modified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | present · perfect | I | the Morien story not said here | the preface | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent story=Topic | |||
| 2 | modify | present · perfect · passive | the influence of Lancelot legend | the Morien story | hence, obviously property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | assign | participle | the influence of Lancelot legend not said here | Agloval | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to agloval=Goal |
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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