Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 65
There would Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot abide till that the feast was ended; be ye sure that Sir Perceval and Sir Agloval the bridegroom prayed them thus to honour the bridal, and this they did, in right courteous wise.
Who acts: Sir, feast, ye, Perceval, this · What happens: abide, be, pray, honour, do · To what, where: minstrels, bridal
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, feast, ye, Perceval), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 abide | expl |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 abide | aux |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 abide | nsubj |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sir | flat |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Sir | cc |
| 6 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sir | conj |
| 7 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sir | flat |
| 8 | abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 ended | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 ended | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 feast | det |
| 12 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ended | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ended | cop |
| 14 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 abide | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 sure | punct |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sure | cop |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 sure | nsubj |
| 18 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 abide | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 prayed | mark |
| 20 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Perceval | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 prayed | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Sir | cc |
| 23 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Perceval | conj |
| 24 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Perceval | flat |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bridegroom | det |
| 26 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Perceval | appos |
| 27 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sure | ccomp |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 prayed | obj |
| 29 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 27 prayed | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 honour | mark |
| 31 | honour | honour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 prayed | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bridal | det |
| 33 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 honour | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 did | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 did | cc |
| 36 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 did | nsubj |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 did | nsubj |
| 38 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 abide | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 wise | punct |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 wise | case |
| 41 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 wise | amod |
| 42 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 wise | amod |
| 43 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 did | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 abide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abide | would | Sir and Sir | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the feast | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | ye | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pray | past | Perceval Sir and Sir | minstrels = minstrel | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | honour | to-infinitive | Perceval Sir and Sir not said here | the bridal | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | past | this | minstrels = minstrel nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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