Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 55
Am I a lesser or a weaker man than either of ye that Sir Gawain must needs ride with me?
Who acts: I, Gawain · What happens: be, need · To what, where: ride
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 (I, 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 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lesser | cop |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lesser | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lesser | det |
| 4 | lesser | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 man | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lesser | conj |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 either | case |
| 10 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 lesser | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ye | case |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 either | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 needs | mark |
| 14 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 needs | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 needs | aux |
| 17 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lesser | advcl |
| 18 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 needs | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ride | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 lesser | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | than either of ye; a weaker man conj; less property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | must | Gawain Sir | ride | with me | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ride=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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