Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 85
Then Sir Gawain bade them carry him softly on a couch to the side of the hall in the sight of the chief guests, that they might hear his tale.
Who acts: lords, Knight · What happens: carry, hear, sight, tell · To what, where: Sir bade, couch, tale, chief guests · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lords, Knight), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bade | advmod |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sir | flat |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carry | nsubj |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carry | obj |
| 8 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 6 carry | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 couch | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 couch | det |
| 11 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 side | det |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 couch | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hall | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hall | det |
| 17 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 side | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 sight | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sight | det |
| 20 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hall | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 guests | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 guests | det |
| 23 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 guests | compound |
| 24 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sight | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hear | punct |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 hear | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 hear | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 hear | aux |
| 29 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 carry | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 tale | nmod:poss |
| 31 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hear | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | lords = lord | Sir bade | a couch to the side of the hall in the sight of the chief guests | Knight obj; softly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 2 | hear | might | lords = lord | Knight's tale | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sight | the chief guests | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | tell | Knight | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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