Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 90
Her prayers and entreaties, her tears and lamentations, would have stirred any man to pity; she cried upon Sir Gawain as he came riding into the plain, to come to her aid and fell the knight's pride.
Who acts: stream, knight · What happens: stir, pity, cry, come, ride, fall · To what, where: prayers, plain, aid, pride
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 (stream, knight), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stirred | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 entreaties | cc |
| 4 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prayers | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tears | punct |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prayers | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lamentations | cc |
| 9 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tears | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 prayers | punct |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stirred | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stirred | aux |
| 13 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stirred | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 pity | mark |
| 17 | pity | pity | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 man | acl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cried | nsubj |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stirred | parataxis |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 Sir | case |
| 22 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 cried | obl |
| 23 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Sir | flat |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 came | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cried | advcl |
| 27 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 came | advcl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 plain | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 plain | det |
| 30 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 riding | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 come | mark |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 came | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 aid | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 aid | nmod:poss |
| 36 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 come | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fell | cc |
| 38 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cried | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 knight | det |
| 40 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 pride | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 knight | case |
| 42 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fell | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stirred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stir | would · perfect · passive | stream's prayers and entreaties and stream's tears and lamentations | any man obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer man=Result | ||||
| 2 | pity | to-infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | stream | upon Sir | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sir=Location | ||||
| 4 | come | past | knight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ride | gerund | knight not said here | the plain | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into plain=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | come | to-infinitive | knight not said here | stream's aid | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | fall | past | stream not said here | the knight's pride | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient pride=Result | ||||
| 8 | pray | stream | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | pride | the knight | nom pride «feeling 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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