Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 16
Sir Gawain was of a mind to bring him to Sir Lancelot ere he made terms with him.
Who acts: Gawain, mind, Sir · What happens: be, bring, ere, make · To what, where: Sir, terms
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain, mind, 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mind | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mind | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mind | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mind | det |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ere | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bring | mark |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mind | acl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Sir | case |
| 11 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obl |
| 12 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sir | flat |
| 13 | ere | ere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ere | ccomp |
| 16 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ere | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Gawain Sir | of a mind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | a mind not said here | Sir | Sir | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to sir=Destination | |||
| 3 | ere | past | a mind | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | past | Sir | terms | with mind | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Product |
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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