Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 4
Then quoth Sir Gawain the good: "Sir Knight, have ye no dread of death as at this time, for I shall help you to a respite."
Who acts: you, ye, I · What happens: quoth, have, help, dread · To what, where: Gawain, dread, you, death
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ye, I), 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 | 2 quoth | advmod |
| 2 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 quoth | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 good | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 quoth | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Knight | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Knight | punct |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Knight | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 quoth | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Knight | conj |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 have | nsubj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 dread | det |
| 15 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dread | nmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quoth | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 help | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 help | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 help | aux |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 quoth | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 help | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 respite | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 respite | det |
| 30 | respite | respite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 help | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quoth | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | imperative | you not said here | Gawain Sir | then; time | the good obl:unmarked; Knight Sir obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | ye | no dread of death | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dread=Patient | ||||
| 3 | help in a quote | shall | I | you | to a respite | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | dread in a quote | death | nom dread «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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