Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 61
But Sir Gawain, who marked this not, went smiting blow after blow on all that came nigh him, and so blinded and drave them backward with his strokes that he was left alone on the field.
Who acts: Gawain, that · What happens: not mark, go, smite, come, blind, drave · To what, where: this, blow, Gawain, blows, field
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, that), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 marked | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 marked | nsubj |
| 6 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Gawain | acl:relcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 marked | obj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 marked | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Gawain | punct |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | smiting | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 went | xcomp |
| 12 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 smiting | obj |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 blow | case |
| 14 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 smiting | obl |
| 15 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 came | det:predet |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 smiting | advcl |
| 19 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 20 him | advmod |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 blinded | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 blinded | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 blinded | advmod |
| 24 | blinded | blind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 went | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 drave | cc |
| 26 | drave | drave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 blinded | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 drave | obj |
| 28 | backward | backward | ADV | _ | 26 drave | advmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 strokes | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 strokes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 drave | obl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 left | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 left | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 left | aux:pass |
| 35 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 strokes | acl |
| 36 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 left | xcomp |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 field | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 field | det |
| 39 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 left | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mark | past | Gawain Sir | this | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Gawain Sir | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | smite | gerund | Gawain Sir not said here | blow | after blow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus blow=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | come | past | that | Gawain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | blind | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | drave | infinitive | blows = blow | with Gawain's strokes; backward property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | leave | past · passive | Gawain | the field | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on field=Location | |||
| 8 | stroke | Gawain | nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=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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