Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 54
They belong to the Round Table, and have done so of long time; both are of the king's court, and knights of high renown.
Who acts: knight, both · What happens: belong, do, be
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 (knight, both), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 belong | nsubj |
| 2 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Table | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Table | det |
| 5 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Table | compound |
| 6 | Table | Table | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 belong | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 done | cc |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 belong | conj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 done | advmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 done | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 court | punct |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 court | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 court | cop |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 court | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 court | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 king | case |
| 22 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 belong | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knights | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 knights | cc |
| 25 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 court | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 renown | case |
| 27 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 renown | amod |
| 28 | renown | renown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knights | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | knight | to the Round Table | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive · perfect | knight not said here | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | both | of the king's court and knights of high renown; the king nmod:poss; knights of high renown conj | 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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