Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 64

Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot took up the word and said: "He who faileth his king 'tis right that men speak shame of him thereafter throughout the world.

Who acts: Sir, men · What happens: take up, say, fail, speak, shame · To what, where: word, king, shame, Sir · 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 (Sir, men), 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	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sir	flat
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Sir	cc
4	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sir	conj
5	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Sir	flat
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 took	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 faileth	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 faileth	punct
14	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 faileth	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 faileth	nsubj
16	faileth	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 king	nmod:poss
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 faileth	obj
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 right	punct
20	tis	tis	ADV	_	21 right	advmod
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 faileth	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 speak	mark
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 speak	nsubj
24	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	advcl
25	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 speak	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 shame	nmod
28	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	24 speak	advmod
29	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 speak	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past	Sir and Sir	the word			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Sir and Sir not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fail in a quote	present	Sir	Sir's king		who nsubj	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
4	speak speech: other in a quote	present	men	shame of Sir	throughout the world	thereafter property	tree rules
5	shame in a quote			Sir			nom shame «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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 64

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 64