Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 24
Then when men beheld Sir Gawain's badge, and Sir Lancelot's pennon beside it, tidings of the combat ran far and wide through the land.
Who acts: men, pennon, Gawain · What happens: behold, run, badge · To what, where: badge, land
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, pennon, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 beheld | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 beheld | advmod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beheld | nsubj |
| 4 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 badge | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Gawain | case |
| 8 | badge | badge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beheld | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ran | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ran | cc |
| 11 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lancelot | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pennon | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Lancelot | case |
| 14 | pennon | pennon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 15 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pennon | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tidings | punct |
| 18 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 combat | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 combat | det |
| 21 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tidings | nmod |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beheld | conj |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 ran | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wide | cc |
| 25 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 23 far | conj |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 land | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 land | det |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ran | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | men | Gawain Sir's badge | then | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer badge=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run | past | Lancelot Sir's pennon beside badge | the land | tidings of the combat nsubj; far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through land=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | badge | Gawain Sir | nom badge «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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