Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 67
I have discussed it fully in Chapter III. of the _Lancelot_ studies, before referred to, and have there compared it with the similar adventure also attributed to that knight in the Dutch compilation.
Who acts: I · What happens: discuss, refer, compare, attribute · To what, where: characteristic, Chapter, Dutch compilation
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 discussed | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 discussed | aux |
| 3 | discussed | discuss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 discussed | obj |
| 5 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 3 discussed | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Chapter | case |
| 7 | Chapter | Chapter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 discussed | obl |
| 8 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 7 Chapter | flat |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discussed | punct |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 studies | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 studies | det |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Lancelot | punct |
| 13 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 studies | compound |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Lancelot | punct |
| 15 | studies | study | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 discussed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 referred | punct |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 referred | mark |
| 18 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 discussed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 referred | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 compared | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 compared | cc |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 compared | aux |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 compared | advmod |
| 24 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 discussed | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 compared | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 adventure | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 adventure | det |
| 28 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 adventure | amod |
| 29 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 compared | obl |
| 30 | also | also | ADV | _ | 31 attributed | advmod |
| 31 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 compared | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 knight | case |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 knight | det |
| 34 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 attributed | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 compilation | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 compilation | det |
| 37 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 compilation | amod |
| 38 | compilation | compilation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 attributed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discussed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discuss speech: other | present · perfect | I | characteristic | Chapter | of the Lancelot studies; fully property | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||
| 2 | refer | participle | I not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | compare | present · perfect | I not said here | characteristic | there | with the similar adventure | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with adventure=Co-Patient | ||
| 4 | attribute | past | I not said here | the Dutch compilation | to that knight | tree rules |
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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