Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 18
Of him have I asked many, this long while past; I have ridden hither and thither this half year, and here and there have I sought him.
Who acts: Gawain, I · What happens: have, ask, ride, seek · To what, where: many, Gawain
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain, 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 | Of | of | SCONJ | _ | 3 have | mark |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ridden | advcl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | ccomp |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 asked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 long | punct |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 long | nsubj |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 have | parataxis |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 past | mark |
| 11 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 long | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ridden | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ridden | aux |
| 15 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 15 ridden | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thither | cc |
| 18 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 16 hither | conj |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 year | det |
| 20 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 21 year | compound |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ridden | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 here | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 here | cc |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 ridden | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 there | cc |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 here | conj |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ridden | conj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 sought | nsubj |
| 29 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | ccomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sought | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ridden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Gawain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | I | many | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent many=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ride | present · perfect | I | here; thither; there | year | hither property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 4 | have | present | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | seek | past | I | Gawain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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