Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 87

Sir Gawain rode swiftly after the maiden who went afore, whom the knight thus mishandled, to avenge her wrong; and as he drew near so that she might see him, she smote her hands together more than before, and cried to Gawain, "Noble knight, for the honour of womanhood, save me!

Who acts: Sir, maiden, knight, stream · What happens: ride, go, mishandle, avenge, draw, see · To what, where: maiden, wrong, Sir, hands, Noble knight, Gawain · 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, maiden, knight, stream), 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 rode	nsubj
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sir	flat
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	3 rode	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 maiden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
7	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 maiden	acl:relcl
10	afore	afore	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mishandled	punct
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 mishandled	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 knight	det
14	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mishandled	nsubj
15	thus	thus	ADV	_	16 mishandled	advmod
16	mishandled	mishandle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 maiden	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 avenge	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 avenge	mark
19	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 mishandled	conj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wrong	nmod:poss
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 avenge	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 drew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 drew	cc
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 drew	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drew	nsubj
26	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
27	near	near	ADV	_	26 drew	advmod
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 see	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 drew	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 see	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 smote	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 smote	nsubj
36	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hands	nmod:poss
38	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 smote	obj
39	together	together	ADV	_	36 smote	advmod
40	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 smote	obj
41	than	than	ADP	_	42 before	case
42	before	before	ADV	_	40 more	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 cried	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 cried	cc
45	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	parataxis
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 Gawain	case
47	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 cried	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 knight	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 knight	punct
50	Noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 knight	amod
51	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cried	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 honour	punct
53	for	for	ADP	_	55 honour	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 honour	det
55	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cried	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 womanhood	case
57	womanhood	womanhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 honour	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 save	punct
59	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 cried	conj
60	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 save	obj
61	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	Sir			after the maiden	swiftly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the maiden				afore property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mishandle	past	the knight	the maiden			thus property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent whom=Patient
4	avenge	to-infinitive	the knight not said here	stream's wrong				tree rules
5	draw	past	Sir				near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see	might	stream	Sir				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7	smite	past	stream	stream's hands			together property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer more=Result
8	cry speech: express	past		Noble knight	Gawain		for the honour of womanhood	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to gawain=Recipient
9	save in a quote	infinitive		me				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
10	honour in a quote			womanhood				nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient

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 87