Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 34
Quoth Sir Lancelot: "By the Lord who made me, Sir Gawain, we must needs depart from each other here and now, would we find these knights.
Who acts: Quoth Lancelot, Lancelot Gawain, we · What happens: make, depart, find · To what, where: steeds, each, knights
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 (Quoth Lancelot, Lancelot Gawain, 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lancelot | compound |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lancelot | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Gawain | compound |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 6 | By | by | ADP | _ | 8 Lord | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lord | det |
| 8 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Lancelot | acl:relcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sir | punct |
| 13 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 depart | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Gawain | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 depart | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 depart | aux |
| 18 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 depart | nsubj |
| 19 | depart | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 each | case |
| 21 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 19 depart | obl |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 each | fixed |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 depart | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 now | cc |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 here | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 find | aux |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 find | nsubj |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 depart | conj |
| 30 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 knights | det |
| 31 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 find | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 depart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | Quoth Lancelot Sir | steeds = steed | by the Lord | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | |||
| 2 | depart in a quote | must | Lancelot Gawain Sir | each; here | now | we nsubj; needs nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from each=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | find in a quote | would | we | this knights | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Topic |
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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