Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 57
Quoth Sir Gawain: "Good friend, God reward ye for your tidings."
Who acts: Quoth Gawain · What happens: reward · To what, where: ye
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 (Quoth Gawain), 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | compound |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reward | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 6 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friend | amod |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reward | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 God | punct |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 friend | appos |
| 10 | reward | reward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 reward | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 tidings | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tidings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reward | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reward | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reward in a quote | present | Quoth Gawain Sir | ye | for your tidings; Good friend nsubj | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ye=Theme for tiding=Attribute |
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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