Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 4
And Morien stood before him and asked him if he yet remembered how, seeking for Sir Lancelot, he came into the land of the Moors, and how he there loved a maiden, and plighted to her his troth, and how she granted to him her favours ere he departed from her upon his quest.
Who acts: Morien, Sir · What happens: stand, ask, remember, seek, come, love · To what, where: Sir, land, maiden, favours, quest
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morien, Sir), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stood | cc |
| 2 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 remembered | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 remembered | nsubj |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 remembered | advmod |
| 12 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | advcl |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 remembered | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeking | punct |
| 15 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 remembered | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Lancelot | case |
| 17 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Lancelot | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seeking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 remembered | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 land | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 land | det |
| 24 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Moors | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Moors | det |
| 27 | Moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 land | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 loved | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 loved | cc |
| 30 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 loved | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 loved | nsubj |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 loved | advmod |
| 33 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 maiden | det |
| 35 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 loved | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 plighted | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 plighted | cc |
| 38 | plighted | plight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stood | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 troth | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 troth | nmod:poss |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 troth | nmod:poss |
| 42 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 plighted | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 departed | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 departed | cc |
| 45 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 47 granted | advmod |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 granted | nsubj |
| 47 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 departed | advcl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 him | case |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 granted | obl |
| 50 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 favours | nmod:poss |
| 51 | favours | favour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 granted | obj |
| 52 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 54 departed | advmod |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 departed | nsubj |
| 54 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 55 | from | from | ADP | _ | 59 quest | case |
| 56 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 quest | nmod:poss |
| 57 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 59 quest | case |
| 58 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 quest | nmod:poss |
| 59 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 departed | obl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Morien | before Sir | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Morien not said here | Sir | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | remember a condition, not said to happen | past | Sir | yet | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | seek | gerund | Sir not said here | for Lancelot Sir | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for lancelot=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | Sir | the land of the Moors | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | love | past | Sir | a maiden | there | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 7 | plight | participle | Morien not said here | to Morien's troth | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | grant | past | Morien | Morien's favours | Sir | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent favour=Theme to he=Goal | |||
| 9 | depart | past | Sir | Morien's quest | ere property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from quest=Initial_Location | |||
| 10 | favour | Morien | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | quest | Morien | nom quest «cognition 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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