Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 74
Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot were both mounted upon their steeds.
What happens: mount · To what, where: Sir, steeds
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: 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 | 8 mounted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Sir | cc |
| 4 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | conj |
| 5 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sir | flat |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mounted | aux:pass |
| 7 | both | both | ADV | _ | 8 mounted | advmod |
| 8 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 steeds | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 steeds | nmod:poss |
| 11 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mounted | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past · passive | Sir and Sir | father's steeds | both property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon steed=Destination |
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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