Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 9
The representation of Gawain as an expert in medical skill is an interesting feature which appears to belong to early tradition.
Who acts: representation, interesting feature · What happens: be, appear, belong, represent · To what, where: interesting feature, Gawain
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 (representation, interesting feature), 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 representation | det |
| 2 | representation | representation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feature | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Gawain | case |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 representation | nmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 expert | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 expert | det |
| 7 | expert | expert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 representation | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 skill | case |
| 9 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 skill | amod |
| 10 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expert | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 feature | cop |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 feature | det |
| 13 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feature | amod |
| 14 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 appears | nsubj |
| 16 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 feature | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 belong | mark |
| 18 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 appears | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 tradition | case |
| 20 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tradition | amod |
| 21 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 belong | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 feature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the representation of Gawain as a expert in medical skill | a interesting feature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | a interesting feature | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | belong | to-infinitive | a interesting feature not said here | to early tradition | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | represent | Gawain | as a expert in medical skill | nom representation «cognition transitive»: of=patient as=obl |
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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