Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 84
He hath learnt the truth; did he seek till Doomsday that which he went forth to seek, the spear and the grail, he would find them not; that cometh altogether from his sin against his mother whereas he left her in the forest, and would no more remain with women--then did she die for sorrow.
Who acts: Perceval, that, Mother · What happens: have, learn, seek, go, not find, come · To what, where: truth, spear, tidings, sin, Mother, forest
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 (Perceval, that, Mother), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hath | nsubj |
| 2 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hath | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learnt | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 seek | punct |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seek | aux |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seek | nsubj |
| 9 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hath | parataxis |
| 10 | till | till | ADP | _ | 11 Doomsday | case |
| 11 | Doomsday | Doomsday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 seek | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 went | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seek | advcl |
| 16 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 seek | mark |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 went | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spear | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spear | det |
| 21 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seek | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grail | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 grail | det |
| 24 | grail | grail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spear | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 find | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 find | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 find | aux |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seek | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 find | obj |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 find | advmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 cometh | punct |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 cometh | nsubj |
| 33 | cometh | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hath | conj |
| 34 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 33 cometh | advmod |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 sin | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 sin | nmod:poss |
| 37 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cometh | obl |
| 38 | against | against | ADP | _ | 40 mother | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 mother | nmod:poss |
| 40 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sin | nmod |
| 41 | whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 43 left | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 left | nsubj |
| 43 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 cometh | advcl |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 left | obj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 forest | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 forest | det |
| 47 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 left | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 remain | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 remain | cc |
| 50 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 remain | aux |
| 51 | no | no | ADV | _ | 52 more | advmod |
| 52 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 53 remain | advmod |
| 53 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hath | conj |
| 54 | with | with | ADP | _ | 55 women | case |
| 55 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 remain | obl |
| 56 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 60 die | punct |
| 57 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 60 die | advmod |
| 58 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 die | aux |
| 59 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 die | nsubj |
| 60 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hath | conj |
| 61 | for | for | ADP | _ | 62 sorrow | case |
| 62 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 die | obl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Perceval | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | learn | past | Perceval not said here | the truth | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic | ||||
| 3 | seek | past · do-support | Perceval | till Doomsday | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past | which nsubj; Perceval nsubj; forth property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | seek | to-infinitive | the spear and the grail | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not find | would | Perceval | tidings = tiding | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 7 | come | present | that | Perceval's sin against Perceval's mother | altogether property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sin=Initial_Location | |||
| 8 | leave | past | Perceval | Mother | the forest | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in forest=Location | |||
| 9 | remain | would | Perceval not said here | with women | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | die | past · do-support | Mother | then | for sorrow | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for sorrow=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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