Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 51
And Sir Gawain who saw that he was sore bestead, commended himself to the grace of God with a good heart and received his foes with drawn sword.
Who acts: Gawain · What happens: see, be, commend, receive, draw · To what, where: Gawain, foes · 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 Gawain | acl:relcl |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 sore | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sore | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sore | cop |
| 9 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | bestead | bestead | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sore | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 commended | punct |
| 12 | commended | commend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 commended | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 grace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grace | det |
| 16 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 commended | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 God | case |
| 18 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 grace | nmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 heart | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 heart | amod |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 commended | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 received | cc |
| 24 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 foes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 received | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 sword | case |
| 28 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 sword | amod |
| 29 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 received | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Gawain Sir | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Gawain | sore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | commend | past | Gawain Sir not said here | Gawain | to the grace of God; with a good heart | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 4 | receive | past | Gawain Sir not said here | Gawain's foes | with drawn sword | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Theme | |||
| 5 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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