Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 102
He thought to quell his pride, and rode against him straightway, and Sir Gawain, on his side, did even the same.
Who acts: Sir, Gawain · What happens: think, quell, ride, do, pride · To what, where: pride, straightway
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, Gawain), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 quell | mark |
| 4 | quell | quell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | xcomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pride | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quell | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rode | cc |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rode | obl |
| 12 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 did | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 did | cc |
| 15 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 did | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 side | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 side | nmod:poss |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Gawain | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Gawain | punct |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rode | conj |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 same | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 same | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 did | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Sir | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | quell | to-infinitive | Sir not said here | Sir's pride | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | straightway | against Sir | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straightway=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | Gawain Sir | same property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pride | Sir | nom pride «feeling 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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