Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 64
Then thought Sir Gawain within himself, since he had so long wielded his weapons and no man durst withstand him further he might find no better counsel than to fare on his way.
Who acts: Sir, weapons · What happens: think, have, wield, withstand, find, fare · To what, where: Gawain, Sir, better counsel, way
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 (Sir, weapons), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 thought | advmod |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obj |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 himself | case |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 thought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 wielded | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 wielded | advmod |
| 13 | wielded | wield | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | ccomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 15 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 withstand | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 man | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 weapons | conj |
| 19 | durst | durst | ADV | _ | 20 withstand | advmod |
| 20 | withstand | withstand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wielded | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 withstand | obj |
| 22 | further | further | ADV | _ | 25 find | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 find | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 withstand | advcl |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 better | advmod |
| 27 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 counsel | amod |
| 28 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obj |
| 29 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 31 fare | mark |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 fare | mark |
| 31 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 find | advcl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 way | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 way | nmod:poss |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fare | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Gawain Sir | then | within Sir | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gawain=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | Sir | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wield | past | Sir not said here | long property | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | withstand | present | Sir's weapons and no man | Sir | durst property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | find | might | Sir | better counsel | further property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Topic | |||
| 6 | fare | to-infinitive | Sir not said here | Sir's way | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/5/64/