Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 70

Then straightway Sir Gawain did him to wit who they were, and how they were hight; and the Moor made no delay, but fell on his knees before them.

Who acts: straightway Gawain, Moor · What happens: do, wit, be, make, fall · To what, where: Sir, hight, delay, knees

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 (straightway Gawain, Moor), 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	5 did	advmod
2	straightway	straightway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Gawain	amod
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Gawain	nmod:desc
4	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wit	mark
8	wit	wit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 did	advcl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 hight	nsubj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hight	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hight	cop
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hight	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hight	cc
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 hight	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hight	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hight	cop
17	hight	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wit	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Moor	det
21	Moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 delay	det
24	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 fell	cc
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 made	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 knees	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 knees	nmod:poss
30	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fell	obl
31	before	before	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fell	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	straightway Gawain Sir	Sir		then		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	wit	to-infinitive	straightway Gawain Sir not said here					tree rules
3	is a	past		hight			who nsubj; names = name nsubj	tree rules
4	make	past	the Moor	no delay				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset delay=Product
5	fall	past	the Moor not said here		Moor's knees	before names = name		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 70

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 70