Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 56
Then was there no longer delaying, but they made them ready for the journey, and went their way with Sir Morien, who knew the road better than any man of them all.
Who acts: Gawain, Morien · What happens: be, delay, make, go, know · To what, where: faith, way, road
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 (Gawain, Morien), 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 | 3 there | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 longer | advmod |
| 5 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 delaying | advmod |
| 6 | delaying | delay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 there | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | parataxis |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 made | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 journey | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 journey | det |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ready | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Morien | case |
| 22 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Morien | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 knew | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 knew | nsubj |
| 26 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Morien | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 road | det |
| 28 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 knew | obj |
| 29 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 knew | advmod |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 man | case |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 man | det |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 better | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 man | nmod |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | then | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | delay | gerund | long property | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | Gawain | faith | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 4 | go | past | Gawain not said here | Gawain's way | with Morien Sir | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 5 | know | past | Morien Sir | the road | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus |
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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