Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 109
Herein were they all of one mind who were there present, and they drew together and looked upon Sir Gawain the Father of Adventure, with fierce and cruel eyes.
Who acts: one mind, deeds · What happens: be, draw together, look · To what, where: all
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one mind, deeds), 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 | Herein | herein | ADV | _ | 4 all | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | cop |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 all | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 mind | nummod |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 all | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 there | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 there | cop |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 mind | acl:relcl |
| 11 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 there | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drew | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drew | nsubj |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | acl:relcl |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 drew | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 drew | conj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 Gawain | case |
| 20 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Father | det |
| 23 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Gawain | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Adventure | case |
| 25 | Adventure | Adventure | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Father | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 eyes | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 eyes | case |
| 28 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 eyes | amod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cruel | cc |
| 30 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fierce | conj |
| 31 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 looked | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | one mind | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw together | past | deeds = deed | together property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | past | deeds = deed not said here | upon Gawain Sir; with fierce eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon gawain=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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