Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 78
Quoth Sir Gawain: "Then must ye lay aside all outrageousness, and ride peaceably on your way, and whatever knight shall meet ye, and greet ye courteously, him shall ye greet and let pass on his way without strife or contention; and be his friend an he hath done ye no wrong--this do I counsel ye straitly.
Who acts: ye, knight, Sir, an · What happens: lay, ride, meet, greet, let, pass on · To what, where: outrageousness, way, ye, friend, Sir, Quoth 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 (ye, knight, Sir, an), 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | compound |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 6 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 lay | advmod |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 lay | aux |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Gawain | parataxis |
| 10 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 12 outrageousness | advmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 outrageousness | det |
| 12 | outrageousness | outrageousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ride | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ride | cc |
| 15 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lay | advcl |
| 16 | peaceably | peaceably | ADV | _ | 15 ride | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 way | nmod:poss |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ride | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 meet | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 meet | cc |
| 22 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 23 knight | det |
| 23 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 meet | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 meet | aux |
| 25 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lay | conj |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 meet | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 greet | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 greet | cc |
| 29 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lay | conj |
| 30 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 greet | obj |
| 31 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 29 greet | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 greet | punct |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 greet | nsubj |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 greet | aux |
| 35 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 greet | nsubj |
| 36 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lay | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 let | cc |
| 38 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 greet | conj |
| 39 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 let | xcomp |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 pass | compound:prt |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 way | nmod:poss |
| 42 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pass | obj |
| 43 | without | without | ADP | _ | 44 strife | case |
| 44 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pass | obl |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 contention | cc |
| 46 | contention | contention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 strife | conj |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 friend | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 friend | cc |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 friend | cop |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 friend | nmod:poss |
| 51 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | appos |
| 52 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 63 counsel | nsubj:outer |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 done | nsubj |
| 54 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 done | aux:pass |
| 55 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 an | acl:relcl |
| 56 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 55 done | nsubj |
| 57 | no | no | ADV | _ | 58 wrong | advmod |
| 58 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 done | xcomp |
| 59 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 63 counsel | punct |
| 60 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 63 counsel | nsubj |
| 61 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 63 counsel | aux |
| 62 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 63 counsel | nsubj |
| 63 | counsel | counsel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 friend | acl:relcl |
| 64 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 63 counsel | obj |
| 65 | straitly | straitly | ADV | _ | 63 counsel | advmod |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Gawain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay in a quote | must | ye | all outrageousness | then | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outrageousness=Result | |||
| 2 | ride in a quote | present | ye not said here | your way | peaceably property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | meet in a quote | shall | whatever knight | ye | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | greet speech: greet in a quote | infinitive | ye not said here | ye | courteously property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme | |||
| 5 | greet speech: greet in a quote | shall | Sir | ye nsubj | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | Sir not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | pass on in a quote | infinitive | Sir not said here | Sir's way | without strife or contention | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 8 | is a in a quote | infinitive | Sir's friend | Sir nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | do in a quote | present · passive | Sir | ye nsubj; wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 10 | counsel speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | an | ye | this nsubj; I nsubj; straitly property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
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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