Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 46
Sir Perceval might well be accounted the third, but 'twas not for long that he practised knighthood; nevertheless he brought many into sore stress, even as ye have heard.
Who acts: twas, Sir, ye · What happens: account, practise, bring, hear · To what, where: Sir, knighthood, many, sore stress
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twas, Sir, ye), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 accounted | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 accounted | aux |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 accounted | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 accounted | aux:pass |
| 6 | accounted | account | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 third | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 accounted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 twas | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 twas | cc |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 twas | punct |
| 12 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 accounted | obl:agent |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 long | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 long | case |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 twas | amod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 practised | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 practised | nsubj |
| 18 | practised | practise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 long | advcl |
| 19 | knighthood | knighthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 practised | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 21 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 23 brought | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | nsubj |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 long | conj |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 brought | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 stress | case |
| 26 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stress | amod |
| 27 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 heard | punct |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 heard | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 heard | mark |
| 31 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 heard | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 heard | aux |
| 33 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 brought | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 accounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | account | might · passive | twas | Sir | well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | practise | past | Sir | knighthood | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | Sir | many | sore stress | nevertheless property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent many=Theme into stress=Destination | ||
| 4 | hear | present · perfect | ye | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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