Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 85
That sin hath hindered him, did he otherwise come upon them, of winning the spear and the grail.
Who acts: sin, Perceval · What happens: have, hinder, come, win · To what, where: Perceval, spear
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 (sin, Perceval), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 sin | det |
| 2 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hath | nsubj |
| 3 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hindered | hinder | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hath | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hindered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hath | parataxis |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 winning | punct |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 winning | mark |
| 15 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 come | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spear | det |
| 17 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 winning | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grail | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 grail | det |
| 20 | grail | grail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spear | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | that sin | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hinder | past | that sin not said here | Perceval | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | come | past · do-support | Perceval | upon sins = sin; otherwise property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | ||||
| 4 | win | gerund | Perceval not said here | the spear and the grail | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Eventuality |
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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