Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 67

Now when Sir Gawain had won the fight, and God had shown him favour by granting him good knighthood and the discomfiting of his foes, the day was well past nones, and Sir Gawain, the bold, had neither eaten nor drunk, nor done aught save fight that day and receive great blows.

Who acts: Sir, God, day, aught · What happens: win, show, grant, discomfit, be, eat · To what, where: fight, favour, Sir, good knighthood, Gawain, great blows

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, God, day, aught), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 won	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 won	mark
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 won	nsubj
4	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sir	flat
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 won	aux
6	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fight	det
8	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 won	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shown	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shown	cc
11	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 shown	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shown	aux
13	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 won	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shown	obj
15	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shown	obj
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 granting	mark
17	granting	grant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 shown	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 granting	obj
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 knighthood	amod
20	knighthood	knighthood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 granting	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 discomfiting	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 discomfiting	det
23	discomfiting	discomfit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 granting	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 foes	case
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	23 discomfiting	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 nones	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nones	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 nones	cop
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 nones	advmod
32	past	past	ADP	_	33 nones	case
33	nones	none	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 foes	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 eaten	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 eaten	cc
36	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Gawain	nmod:desc
37	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 eaten	nsubj:pass
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 bold	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bold	det
40	bold	bold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Gawain	appos
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Gawain	punct
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 eaten	aux
43	neither	neither	ADV	_	44 eaten	advmod
44	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 won	conj
45	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	46 drunk	cc
46	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 eaten	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 save	punct
48	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	50 aught	cc
49	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 aught	amod
50	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	51 save	nsubj
51	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 won	parataxis
52	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 save	obj
53	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 day	det
54	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 save	obl:unmarked
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 receive	cc
56	receive	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 save	conj
57	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 blows	amod
58	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 receive	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 won	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	win	past · perfect	Sir	the fight		now		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality
2	show	past · perfect	God	favour	Sir			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient favour=Topic
3	grant	gerund	God not said here	good knighthood	Sir			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal knighthood=Theme
4	discomfit	gerund	God not said here				of Sir's foes and nones	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	the day				past nones; well property	tree rules
6	eat	past · perfect · passive		Gawain Sir			neither property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	do	participle						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	save	infinitive	aught	fight		day		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme
9	receive	present	aught not said here	great blows				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=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 67

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 67