Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 51
After this manner also spake Sir Lancelot, and all who were in the hall took up the word of Sir Gawain, and praised Perceval.
Who acts: all, hall · What happens: be, take up, praise, word · To what, where: hall, word, Perceval, Sir
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 (all, hall), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obl |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 Sir | advmod |
| 5 | spake | speak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Sir | amod |
| 6 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 manner | nmod |
| 7 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sir | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hall | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hall | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 hall | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 hall | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hall | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hall | det |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 word | det |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Sir | case |
| 21 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 word | nmod |
| 22 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sir | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 praised | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 praised | cc |
| 25 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 26 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 praised | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | the hall | who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take up | past | the hall | the word of Sir | after this manner spake Sir | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 3 | praise | past | the hall not said here | Perceval | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perceval=Theme | ||||
| 4 | word | Sir | nom word «communication 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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