Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 29
My father was seeking a noble knight, who was lost as at that time, and who was hight Sir Lancelot.
Who acts: father · What happens: seek, lose, be · To what, where: noble knight, hight
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seeking | aux |
| 4 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 6 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 knight | amod |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeking | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lost | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lost | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lost | aux:pass |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 knight | acl:relcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hight | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hight | cc |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 hight | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hight | cop |
| 20 | hight | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeking | obl |
| 21 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Lancelot | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hight | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past · progressive | My father | a noble knight | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · passive | a noble knight | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | hight | who nsubj; Lancelot Sir appos | 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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