Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 58
So soon as she beheld them, and they drew nigh, was she glad and blithe and drew aside from the strife where Sir Gawain did right manfully.
Who acts: many, Twas, Sir · What happens: behold, draw, be, do · To what, where: Twas
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 (many, Twas, Sir), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 beheld | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 beheld | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beheld | nsubj |
| 5 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beheld | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drew | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drew | nsubj |
| 10 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beheld | conj |
| 11 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 10 drew | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 glad | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 glad | cop |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 glad | nsubj |
| 15 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drew | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blithe | cc |
| 17 | blithe | blithe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 glad | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drew | cc |
| 19 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beheld | conj |
| 20 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 19 drew | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 strife | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 strife | det |
| 23 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drew | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 did | advmod |
| 25 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 did | nsubj |
| 26 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Sir | flat |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 strife | acl:relcl |
| 28 | right | right | ADV | _ | 29 manfully | advmod |
| 29 | manfully | manfully | ADV | _ | 27 did | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | many | Twas = twa | soon property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | draw | past | Twas = twa | nigh property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | many | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | many not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | draw | past | many not said here | from the strife; aside property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from strife=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | do | past | Sir | manfully property | vn act-114-1 «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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