Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 71
Sir Gawain raised him up, but the Moor laid his hands together and spake, "God the Father of all, and Ruler of the World, grant that I may amend my misdoing to your honour.
Who acts: Sir, Moor, grant, your · What happens: raise up, lay, amend, honour · To what, where: Moor, hands, misdoing
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, Moor, grant, your), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 raised | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 raised | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 laid | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 laid | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Moor | det |
| 9 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | nsubj |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 laid | obj |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 laid | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spake | cc |
| 15 | spake | speak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 together | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 God | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 God | punct |
| 18 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Father | det |
| 20 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 God | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 Father | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ruler | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Ruler | cc |
| 25 | Ruler | Ruler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 God | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 World | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 World | det |
| 28 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ruler | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 grant | punct |
| 30 | grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Ruler | appos |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 amend | nsubj |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 amend | nsubj |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 amend | aux |
| 34 | amend | amend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 grant | acl:relcl |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 misdoing | nmod:poss |
| 36 | misdoing | misdoing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 amend | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 honour | case |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 honour | nmod:poss |
| 39 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 amend | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise up | past | Sir | Moor | God and Ruler of the World parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lay | past | the Moor | Moor's hands | together property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result | |||
| 3 | amend in a quote | may | grant | my misdoing | to your honour; I nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | honour in a quote | your | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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