Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 2
He forgat not his courtesy, but gave it into the hand of the maiden, and drew forth his good sword.
What happens: give, draw · To what, where: courtesy, hand, good sword, forgat
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 forgat | nsubj |
| 2 | forgat | forgat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 courtesy | advmod |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 courtesy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 forgat | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 forgat | parataxis |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hand | det |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 maiden | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hand | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drew | cc |
| 18 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | conj |
| 19 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 18 drew | advmod |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sword | nmod:poss |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sword | amod |
| 22 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 forgat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | courtesy | the hand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | knight's good sword | forth property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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