Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 29

That night were they well entreated by the hermit, but the morrow so soon as Sir Lancelot heard how it went with the queen, even should he gain the world thereby he had remained no longer, neither for wounds nor for weariness, for, he said, he was surely healed, and was fain to be at strife.

Who acts: matters, Sir, couch · What happens: be, hear, go, gain, remain, say · To what, where: world, Sir, strife · 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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matters, Sir, couch), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entreated	obl:unmarked
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 entreated	cop
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 entreated	nsubj
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 entreated	advmod
6	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 hermit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hermit	det
9	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entreated	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 morrow	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 morrow	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morrow	det
13	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entreated	obl
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 soon	advmod
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 entreated	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 heard	mark
17	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 heard	nsubj
18	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Sir	flat
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 soon	advcl
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 went	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	ccomp
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 queen	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 queen	det
25	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gain	punct
27	even	even	ADV	_	30 gain	advmod
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 gain	aux
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gain	nsubj
30	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 heard	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gain	obj
33	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	36 remained	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 remained	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 remained	aux
36	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 gain	advcl
37	no	no	ADV	_	38 longer	advmod
38	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 remained	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 wounds	punct
40	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	42 wounds	cc:preconj
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 wounds	case
42	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 remained	obl
43	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	45 weariness	cc
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 weariness	case
45	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wounds	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 said	punct
47	for	for	SCONJ	_	50 said	mark
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 for	punct
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 said	nsubj
50	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 remained	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 healed	punct
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 healed	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 healed	aux:pass
54	surely	surely	ADV	_	55 healed	advmod
55	healed	heal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 said	ccomp
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 fain	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 fain	cc
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 fain	cop
59	fain	fain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 healed	conj
60	to	to	PART	_	63 strife	mark
61	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 strife	cop
62	at	at	ADP	_	63 strife	case
63	strife	strife	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 fain	advcl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 entreated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	matters = matter			night	by the hermit; the morrow obl; entreat, soon, well property	tree rules
2	hear	past	Sir					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past	couch				with the queen	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with queen=Beneficiary
4	gain	should	Sir	the world				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme
5	remain	past · perfect	Sir				for wounds nor weariness; long, thereby property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	Sir					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	heal	past · passive		Sir			surely property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
8	is	past					fain property	tree rules
9	is	to-infinitive			strife			tree rules

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 11, sentence 29