Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 27
Sir Gawain took counsel with his comrades, and this was their rede, that they must bring King Arthur there before their eyes ere they might make terms for their lord, the king. "
Who acts: Sir, this, comrades · What happens: take, be, bring, make · To what, where: counsel, rede, King Arthur, eyes, terms
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 (Sir, this, comrades), 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 | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 comrades | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 7 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rede | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rede | cc |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 rede | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rede | cop |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 rede | nmod:poss |
| 13 | rede | rede | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bring | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 bring | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 bring | aux |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | parataxis |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Arthur | compound |
| 20 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | obj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 bring | advmod |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 eyes | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bring | obl |
| 25 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 28 make | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 make | nsubj |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 bring | parataxis |
| 29 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 lord | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 lord | nmod:poss |
| 32 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 king | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 king | det |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lord | appos |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Sir | counsel | with Sir's comrades | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | this | comrades's rede | comrades = comrade nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bring | must | comrades = comrade | King Arthur | comrades's eyes; there | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arthur=Theme before eye=Destination | |||
| 4 | make | might | comrades = comrade | terms | for comrades's lord; ere property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent term=Product for lord=Beneficiary |
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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