Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 73
Sir Gawain spake: "Take ye not to heart that which has here chanced, it shall be naught the worse for ye."
Who acts: heart · What happens: take, chance, be · To what, where: ye, heart, naught, 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 (heart), 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 | 2 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gawain | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 6 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Gawain | appos |
| 7 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 Take | obj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 heart | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 heart | mark |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Take | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 chanced | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 chanced | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 chanced | aux |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 chanced | advmod |
| 15 | chanced | chance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 heart | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 naught | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 naught | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 naught | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 naught | cop |
| 20 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 6 Take | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 worse | det |
| 22 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 naught | acl:relcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 ye | case |
| 24 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 worse | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | ye | heart obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument ye=Theme heart=Destination | ||||
| 2 | chance in a quote | present · perfect · passive | heart | here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | shall | heart | naught | tree rules |
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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