Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 33
Quoth Sir Gawain: "An ye be wise, Sir Knight, ye will now speak; here will I tarry no longer.
Who acts: ye, Gawain Knight, Dear Knight · What happens: be, speak, tarry · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, Gawain Knight, Dear 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | compound |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Knight | compound |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 wise | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wise | punct |
| 6 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wise | det |
| 7 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 wise | nsubj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wise | cop |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Gawain | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sir | punct |
| 11 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Knight | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 speak | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Knight | punct |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 speak | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 speak | aux |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 speak | advmod |
| 17 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 tarry | punct |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 tarry | advmod |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 tarry | aux |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 tarry | nsubj |
| 22 | tarry | tarry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 speak | conj |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 24 longer | advmod |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 tarry | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | ye | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | future | Gawain Knight Sir | now | ye nsubj | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | tarry in a quote | future | Dear Knight Sir = knight | here | long property | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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