Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 60
Then did Sir Gawain give them to wit of the good knight Sir Morien, what he had done for them, and how he was one of the best knights the sun ever shone upon.
Who acts: Gawain, best knights · What happens: give, wit, do, be, shine · To what, where: knights, good knight, one, sun
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, best knights), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 give | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 wit | mark |
| 8 | wit | wit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 knight | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 knight | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knight | amod |
| 12 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wit | obl |
| 13 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 knight | appos |
| 14 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sir | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 done | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 done | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 done | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 knight | acl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 done | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 one | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 one | cc |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 one | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 one | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 one | cop |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 give | iobj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 knights | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 knights | det |
| 30 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 knights | amod |
| 31 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 one | nmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sun | det |
| 33 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 shone | advmod |
| 35 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 knights | acl:relcl |
| 36 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 35 shone | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · do-support | Gawain Sir | knights = knight | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wit | to-infinitive | Gawain Sir not said here | of the good knight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Gawain | the good knight | for knights = knight | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | is a | past | Gawain | one | of the best knights | tree rules | |||
| 5 | shine | participle · passive | the best knights not said here | the sun | ever | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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