Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 90

Now doth the adventure tell us that when Sir Lancelot departed from Sir Gawain at the cross-roads he delayed not, but rode that same hour till he came to the waste land wherein the beast had wrought havoc.

Who acts: Sir, beast · What happens: do, tell, depart, not delay, ride, come · To what, where: adventure, us, cross-roads, waste land, wrought havoc · 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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, beast), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 doth	advmod
2	doth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 adventure	det
4	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doth	obj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 doth	xcomp
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 departed	mark
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 departed	advmod
9	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 departed	nsubj
10	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sir	flat
11	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	advcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 Sir	case
13	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 departed	obl
14	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Sir	flat
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 cross-roads	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cross-roads	det
17	cross-roads	cross-road	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 departed	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 delayed	nsubj
19	delayed	delay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cross-roads	acl:relcl
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 delayed	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rode	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 rode	cc
23	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 doth	conj
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 hour	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hour	amod
26	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rode	obj
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 came	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rode	advcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 land	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 land	det
32	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 land	compound
33	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
34	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	37 had	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 beast	det
36	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 land	acl:relcl
38	wrought	wrought	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 havoc	amod
39	havoc	havoc	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 doth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the adventure			now		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive			us				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
3	depart	past	Sir			the cross-roads		from Sir	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sir=Initial_Location
4	not delay	past	Sir	the cross-roads not said here					vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent cross-road=Source
5	ride	past					hour		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	Sir			the waste land			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location
7	have	past	the beast	wrought havoc				wherein property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent havoc=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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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 90