Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 75
_ There seems to be a confusion here; from Gariet's account it was the King of the Saxons who captured Arthur; here he has disappeared and everything is attributed to the King of Ireland.
Who acts: account, Saxons, Arthur, Gariet · What happens: seem, be, capture, disappear, attribute, account · To what, where: confusion, King, Arthur, everything
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 (account, Saxons, Arthur, Gariet), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 seems | expl |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 confusion | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 confusion | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 confusion | det |
| 7 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seems | xcomp |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 seems | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 account | case |
| 11 | Gariet | Gariet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 account | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Gariet | case |
| 13 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ; | obl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 King | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 King | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 account | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Saxons | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Saxons | det |
| 20 | Saxons | Saxon | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 King | nmod |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 captured | nsubj |
| 22 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Saxons | acl:relcl |
| 23 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 captured | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 disappeared | punct |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 disappeared | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 disappeared | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 disappeared | aux |
| 28 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 seems | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 attributed | cc |
| 30 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 32 attributed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 attributed | aux:pass |
| 32 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 disappeared | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 King | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 King | det |
| 35 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 attributed | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Ireland | case |
| 37 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 King | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | here; there | Gariet's account obl | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a confusion | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | account | the King | of the Saxons | tree rules | |||
| 4 | capture | past | the Saxons | Arthur | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arthur=Theme | ||||
| 5 | disappear | present · perfect | Arthur | here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | attribute | present · passive | everything | to the King of Ireland | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | account | Gariet | nom account «communication transitive»: 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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