Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 76
Probably they were allies; but it is also possible that confusion may have arisen from the fact that the King of Dublin was at one time, as in the Tristan legend, a Viking, and the poet has not distinguished clearly between the nationalities of these sea-robbers.
Who acts: Saxons, account, King · What happens: be, arise, not distinguish · To what, where: confusion, fact, poet
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 (Saxons, account, King), 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 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 3 were | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 were | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | allies | ally | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 possible | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 possible | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 possible | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 possible | cop |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 possible | advmod |
| 10 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 were | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 arisen | mark |
| 12 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arisen | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 arisen | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 arisen | aux |
| 15 | arisen | arise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 possible | advcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 fact | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fact | det |
| 18 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arisen | obl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 time | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 time | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Dublin | case |
| 23 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 King | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 time | cop |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 time | nummod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fact | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 legend | punct |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 legend | case |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 legend | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 legend | det |
| 32 | Tristan | Tristan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 legend | compound |
| 33 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 time | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Viking | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 Viking | det |
| 36 | Viking | viking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 legend | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 distinguished | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 distinguished | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 poet | det |
| 40 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 distinguished | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 distinguished | aux |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 distinguished | advmod |
| 43 | distinguished | distinguish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 arisen | conj |
| 44 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 43 distinguished | advmod |
| 45 | between | between | ADP | _ | 47 nationalities | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 nationalities | det |
| 47 | nationalities | nationality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 distinguished | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 robbers | case |
| 49 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 52 robbers | det |
| 50 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 robbers | compound |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 sea | punct |
| 52 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 nationalities | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Saxons = saxon | allies nsubj; probably property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | account | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | arise | may · perfect · passive | confusion | the fact | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the King of Dublin | at one time | the Tristan legend and a Viking parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not distinguish | present · perfect · passive | the poet | between the nationalities of this sea robbers; clearly property | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme |
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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