Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 41
Sir Gawain gave him answer: "Dear comrade, I am fain to do your bidding, and may God keep us in life and limb, and in worldly honour.
Who acts: Sir, God, your · What happens: give, answer, be, do, keep, bid · To what, where: knight, bidding, us, life · 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 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, God, your), 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 | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | xcomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 comrade | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 comrade | punct |
| 8 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 comrade | amod |
| 9 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fain | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 fain | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fain | cop |
| 13 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 comrade | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fain | xcomp |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 keep | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 keep | cc |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 keep | aux |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | nsubj |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 comrade | parataxis |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 keep | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 life | case |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 limb | cc |
| 27 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 life | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 honour | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 honour | cc |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 honour | case |
| 31 | worldly | worldly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 honour | amod |
| 32 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Sir | knight | Dear comrade parataxis; worldly honour parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | Sir not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Sir | fain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Sir not said here | your bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | may | God | us | life and limb | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent we=Theme in life=Location | |||
| 6 | bid in a quote | your | nom bidding «communication 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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