Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 8
Then thought Sir Gawain with himself, "We were foolish and unwise an we failed to show courtesy to one who praises us so highly."
Who acts: We · What happens: think, be, fail, not show, praise · To what, where: Gawain, courtesy, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We), 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 | 2 thought | advmod |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 himself | case |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 thought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 foolish | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 foolish | punct |
| 9 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 foolish | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 foolish | cop |
| 11 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 unwise | cc |
| 13 | unwise | unwise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 foolish | conj |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 failed | det |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 failed | nsubj |
| 16 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 foolish | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 show | mark |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 failed | xcomp |
| 19 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 show | ccomp |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 praises | nsubj |
| 23 | praises | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | acl:relcl |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 praises | obj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 highly | advmod |
| 26 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 23 praises | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 foolish | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 foolish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Gawain Sir | then | with Sir | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gawain=Theme | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | We | foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | We not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | fail in a quote | past | we | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | not show in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | courtesy | one ccomp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent courtesy=Recipient | |||
| 6 | praise in a quote | present | us | who nsubj; highly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
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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