Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 93
Quoth Sir Gawain: "Then were I but afoot Sir Knight!
What happens: be · To what, where: Sir, Quoth Gawain
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: 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | compound |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 I | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 I | punct |
| 6 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 I | advmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 I | cop |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 Gawain | conj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 Knight | cc |
| 10 | afoot | afoot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Knight | amod |
| 11 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Knight | compound |
| 12 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 I | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Gawain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Sir | then | afoot Sir Knight conj | 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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