Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 19
As he spake thus, Sir Gawain made no more ado but smote off the traitor's head.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: make, smite · To what, where: more ado
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 (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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 spake | case |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spake | nsubj |
| 3 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 spake | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spake | punct |
| 6 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj |
| 7 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sir | flat |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 ado | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 ado | amod |
| 11 | ado | ado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 smote | cc |
| 13 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 traitor | det |
| 16 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 traitor | case |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smote | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Sir | more ado | as spake Sir | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ado=Product | |||
| 2 | smite | past | Sir not said here | off the traitor's head | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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