Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 49

There might he fear no foe; the steed was so strong and so great, and even as his lord had need would the horse watch and follow every sign that he might give.

Who acts: Gawain, steed, lord, need · What happens: fear, be, have, watch, follow, give · To what, where: foe, sign

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, steed, lord, need), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 fear	expl
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fear	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fear	nsubj
4	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 foe	det
6	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fear	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 strong	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 steed	det
9	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strong	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 strong	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 strong	advmod
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fear	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 great	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 great	advmod
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 strong	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
18	even	even	ADV	_	21 lord	advmod
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 lord	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lord	nmod:poss
21	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 strong	parataxis
23	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 watch	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 watch	aux
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 horse	det
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 watch	nsubj
27	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 follow	cc
29	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 watch	conj
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 sign	det
31	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 follow	obj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 give	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 give	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 give	aux
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 sign	acl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fear	might	Gawain	no foe	there		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foe=Stimulus
2	is	past	the steed			strong property	tree rules
3	be		the steed not said here				tree rules
4	have	past	Gawain's lord				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	watch	would	need			the horse nsubj	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	follow	infinitive	need not said here	every sign			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
7	give	might	Gawain	every sign not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 49

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 49