Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 9
Sir Gawain, Sir Perceval, and Sir Lancelot smote many to death, and came even to the king's tents, and seized their weapons, shields, and spears, ere his folk might come at their arms.
Who acts: Sir, spears, folk · What happens: smite, come, seize, ere · To what, where: many, tents, weapons, arms, Gawain
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, spears, folk), 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 | 2 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sir | punct |
| 4 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Gawain | conj |
| 5 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Gawain | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 smote | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 smote | cc |
| 8 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 smote | nsubj |
| 9 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sir | flat |
| 10 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Gawain | acl:relcl |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 smote | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 many | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 smote | conj |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 tents | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 tents | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tents | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 king | case |
| 22 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 came | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seized | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 seized | cc |
| 25 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 came | parataxis |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 27 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 seized | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 shields | punct |
| 29 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 weapons | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 ere | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 ere | cc |
| 32 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 ere | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 spears | punct |
| 34 | ere | ere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 seized | conj |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 folk | nmod:poss |
| 36 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 come | nsubj |
| 37 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 come | aux |
| 38 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 ere | ccomp |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 arms | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 arms | nmod:poss |
| 41 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 come | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gawain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past | Sir | many | to death result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent many=Patient to death=Result | |||
| 2 | come | past | Sir not said here | the king's tents | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tent=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | strokes's weapons and shields | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ere | past | spears | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | come | might | Sir's folk | strokes's arms | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at arm=Location |
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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