Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 61
Then said Sir Gawain: "It liketh me ill that ye sware such an oath, yet since such is your will, take ye the road that leadeth to the sea (this seemeth to me the best), ride swiftly and spare not, but seek your father.
Who acts: Gawain, chance, that, road, this · What happens: say, like, sware, take, lead, seem · To what, where: Gawain, oath, ye, best, father · 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 (Gawain, chance, that, road), 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 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 liketh | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 liketh | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 liketh | nsubj |
| 8 | liketh | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | parataxis |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 liketh | obj |
| 10 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sware | amod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sware | nsubj |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 sware | compound |
| 13 | sware | sware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 liketh | obj |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 oath | det:predet |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 oath | det |
| 16 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sware | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
| 18 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 25 take | cc |
| 19 | since | since | ADP | _ | 20 such | case |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 25 take | obl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 will | cop |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 will | nmod:poss |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 such | aux |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 such | punct |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 liketh | conj |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 take | obj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 road | det |
| 28 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 leadeth | nsubj |
| 30 | leadeth | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 road | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 sea | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sea | det |
| 33 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 leadeth | obl |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 seemeth | punct |
| 35 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 seemeth | nsubj |
| 36 | seemeth | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 leadeth | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 me | case |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 seemeth | obl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 best | det |
| 40 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 seemeth | obj |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 seemeth | punct |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 ride | punct |
| 43 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 take | parataxis |
| 44 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 43 ride | advmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 spare | cc |
| 46 | spare | spare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 43 ride | conj |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 spare | advmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 seek | punct |
| 49 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 50 seek | cc |
| 50 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 take | conj |
| 51 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 father | nmod:poss |
| 52 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 seek | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Gawain Sir | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | like in a quote | present | chance | Gawain Sir = gawain | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sware in a quote | that | such oath | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | chance not said here | ye | since such | the road obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument ye=Theme road=Destination | ||
| 5 | lead in a quote | present | the road | to the sea | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to sea=Patient | ||||
| 6 | seem in a quote | present | this | the best | Gawain Sir = gawain | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme good=Attribute | |||
| 7 | ride in a quote | infinitive | swiftly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | not spare in a quote | infinitive | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | seek in a quote | infinitive | chance not said here | your father | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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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