Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 85

When Sir Gawain came to the other side of the river, which was both wide and deep, then saw he a great company of folk riding after the knight who bare away the maiden by force, and thus misused her, but he wist not if it was to aid the knight that they thus followed him, or to wreak vengeance on him.

Who acts: Sir, river, twas · What happens: come, be, see, bare, misuse, not wist · To what, where: other side, Sir, stream, knight, vengeance

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, river, twas), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Sir	flat
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 side	amod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wide	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 wide	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wide	cop
15	both	both	ADV	_	16 wide	advmod
16	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 river	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 deep	cc
18	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wide	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 saw	advmod
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 company	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 company	amod
25	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 riding	case
27	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 riding	compound
28	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 company	nmod
29	after	after	ADP	_	31 knight	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 knight	det
31	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bare	obl
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 bare	nsubj
33	bare	bare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	conj
34	away	away	ADV	_	36 maiden	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 maiden	det
36	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bare	xcomp
37	by	by	ADP	_	38 force	case
38	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 maiden	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 misused	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 misused	cc
41	thus	thus	ADV	_	42 misused	advmod
42	misused	misuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	conj
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 misused	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 wist	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 wist	cc
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 wist	nsubj
47	wist	wist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	conj
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 wist	advmod
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 aid	mark
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 aid	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 aid	cop
52	to	to	PART	_	53 aid	mark
53	aid	aid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 wist	advcl
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 knight	det
55	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 aid	obj
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 followed	mark
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 followed	nsubj
58	thus	thus	ADV	_	59 followed	advmod
59	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 aid	advcl
60	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 followed	obj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 wreak	punct
62	or	or	CCONJ	_	64 wreak	cc
63	to	to	PART	_	64 wreak	mark
64	wreak	wreak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 aid	conj
65	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 wreak	obj
66	on	on	ADP	_	67 him	case
67	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 wreak	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Sir		the other side of the river			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the river				both, wide property	tree rules
3	be		the river not said here					tree rules
4	see	past		Sir		then	a great company of folk riding obj	tree rules
5	bare	present				after the knight	who nsubj; maiden property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	misuse	past		stream			thus property	tree rules
7	not wist	present	Sir					tree rules
8	is a condition, not said to happen	past	river				the knight obj; aid property	tree rules
9	follow	past	twas = twa	knight			thus property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
10	wreak	to-infinitive	river not said here	vengeance			on Sir	tree rules

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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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 85