Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 2
When Sir Gawain had parted the twain, whom he saw to be weary enow, he spake to the Moor: "'Tis an ill custom this to which ye are given; ye shall here renounce it.
Who acts: Sir, Tis, ye · What happens: part, see, be, speak, custom, give · To what, where: Sir, twain, weary enow, ye, enow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sir, Tis, ye), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 parted | advmod |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 parted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sir | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 parted | aux |
| 5 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 twain | det |
| 7 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 parted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 saw | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 twain | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 enow | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 enow | cop |
| 14 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 enow | amod |
| 15 | enow | enow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spake | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 spake | nsubj |
| 18 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enow | appos |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Moor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Moor | det |
| 21 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spake | nmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 custom | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 custom | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 Tis | punct |
| 25 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 custom | nsubj |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 custom | det |
| 27 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 custom | amod |
| 28 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enow | parataxis |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 which | nsubj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 given | mark |
| 32 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 given | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 given | aux:pass |
| 34 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 custom | advcl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 renounce | punct |
| 36 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 renounce | nsubj |
| 37 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 renounce | aux |
| 38 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 renounce | advmod |
| 39 | renounce | renounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 saw | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 renounce | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 parted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | past · perfect · passive | Sir | the twain obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Sir | the twain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | weary enow | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | Sir | to the Moor | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | custom in a quote | Tis | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | give in a quote | present · passive | ye | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | renounce in a quote | shall | ye | enow | here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source |
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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