Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 72
Quoth Sir Gawain, "Were it your command, and your will and pleasure, right gladly would I abide here within this night!
Who acts: command, lord, your · What happens: be, pleasure, abide, command · To what, where: castle · 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 (command, lord, your), 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 pleasure | vocative |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Quoth | flat |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Quoth | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quoth | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 it | punct |
| 6 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 it | cop |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pleasure | obl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 command | nmod:poss |
| 9 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pleasure | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 will | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 will | cc |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 will | nmod:poss |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 pleasure | aux |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pleasure | cc |
| 15 | pleasure | pleasure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 abide | punct |
| 17 | right | right | ADV | _ | 21 abide | advmod |
| 18 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 21 abide | advmod |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 abide | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 abide | nsubj |
| 21 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pleasure | conj |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 abide | advmod |
| 23 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 night | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 night | det |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 abide | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleasure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | castle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pleasure in a quote | future | your command | Quoth vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | abide in a quote | would | the lord = lord | here | night | gladly, right property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | command in a quote | your | nom command «communication 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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