Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 71

And for this cause would not Sir Lancelot and Sir Gawain and Sir Perceval remain afar, but took their leave of Sir Agloval and of Morien and of his mother, and rode on their way till they came to King Arthur at Camelot, where he abode, as it pleased him well to do when he would fain be at peace.

Who acts: Lancelot, king · What happens: not sir, remain, take, ride, come, abide · To what, where: leave, way, King Arthur, Camelot, peace

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 (Lancelot, king), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 Sir	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 cause	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 cause	det
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Sir	obl
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 Sir	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 Sir	advmod
7	Sir	sir	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 remain	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Sir	cc
10	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Lancelot	conj
11	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Lancelot	flat
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Perceval	cc
13	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Perceval	nmod:desc
14	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Lancelot	conj
15	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Sir	ccomp
16	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 remain	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 took	cc
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Sir	parataxis
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 leave	nmod:poss
21	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Agloval	case
23	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Agloval	nmod:desc
24	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 leave	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Morien	cc
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Morien	case
27	Morien	Morien	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Agloval	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mother	cc
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 mother	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mother	nmod:poss
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leave	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rode	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rode	cc
34	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 took	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 way	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 way	nmod:poss
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rode	obl
38	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 came	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 came	nsubj
40	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 rode	advcl
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 Arthur	case
42	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Arthur	compound
43	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 came	obl
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 Camelot	case
45	Camelot	Camelot	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 came	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 abode	punct
47	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	49 abode	advmod
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 abode	nsubj
49	abode	abide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 came	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 pleased	punct
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 pleased	mark
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 pleased	nsubj
53	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 abode	ccomp
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 pleased	nsubj
55	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	57 do	advmod
56	to	to	PART	_	57 do	mark
57	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 abode	advcl
58	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	61 fain	advmod
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 fain	nsubj
60	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 fain	aux
61	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 peace	orphan
62	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	64 peace	cop
63	at	at	ADP	_	64 peace	case
64	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 do	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Sir	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not sir	would					for this cause	tree rules
2	remain	present	Lancelot and Sir and Perceval Sir				afar property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past		Lancelot's leave of Agloval Sir and Morien and Sir's mother				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
4	ride	past				Lancelot's way		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	come	past	Lancelot		King Arthur	Camelot		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to arthur=Initial_Location
6	abide	past	king					tree rules
7	do	to-infinitive	king not said here				well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	fain	would	king					tree rules
9	is	infinitive				peace		tree rules

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 12, sentence 71

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 71