Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 59
The knights were right well received, for all knew them well, and made great rejoicing over the coming of Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot.
What happens: receive, know, make, rejoice, come · To what, where: knights
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knights | det |
| 2 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 received | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 received | aux:pass |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 received | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 received | advmod |
| 6 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 knew | advmod |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 received | parataxis |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | obj |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 knew | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 knew | conj |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 made | xcomp |
| 17 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 made | xcomp |
| 18 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 20 coming | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 coming | det |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 rejoicing | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Gawain | case |
| 22 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 coming | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Sir | cc |
| 25 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gawain | conj |
| 26 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Sir | flat |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | the knights | right, well property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | knights = knight | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | past | great property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rejoice | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | come | gerund | of Gawain Sir and Sir | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of gawain=Initial_Location |
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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