Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 86
He must be pure and clean from all stain, from all sin (so is it now declared for truth) who would have the spear at his will, and the grail.
Who acts: Perceval, spear · What happens: be, have · To what, where: stain, 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 (Perceval, spear), 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 | 4 pure | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pure | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pure | cop |
| 4 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 clean | cc |
| 6 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pure | conj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 stain | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 stain | det |
| 9 | stain | stain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clean | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sin | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 sin | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 sin | det |
| 13 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stain | conj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 declared | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 declared | advmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 declared | cop |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 declared | nsubj |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 declared | advmod |
| 19 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pure | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 truth | case |
| 21 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 declared | obl |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 have | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 declared | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 spear | det |
| 27 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 will | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 will | nmod:poss |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 grail | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 grail | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 grail | det |
| 34 | grail | grail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pure | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | Perceval | the grail conj; pure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Perceval not said here | all stain and all sin | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | spear | now | for truth; declare property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | would | the spear | who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Patient |
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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