Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 45
He fetched a mighty blow upward and smote the knight above the hauberk, in the neck, to the very middle of the throat.
Who acts: Gawain · What happens: fetch, smote · To what, where: mighty blow, knight, hauberk
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 (Gawain), 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 fetched | nsubj |
| 2 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 blow | det |
| 4 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blow | amod |
| 5 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fetched | obj |
| 6 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 2 fetched | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 smote | cc |
| 8 | smote | smote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fetched | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 knight | det |
| 10 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smote | obj |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 hauberk | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hauberk | det |
| 13 | hauberk | hauberk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knight | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 neck | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 neck | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 neck | det |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smote | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 middle | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 middle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 middle | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 middle | advmod |
| 22 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smote | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 throat | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 throat | det |
| 25 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 middle | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past | Gawain | a mighty blow | upward property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | |||
| 2 | smote | infinitive | Gawain not said here | the knight | the hauberk | in the neck; to the middle of the throat | 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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