Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 80
But Sir Gawain, the Father of Adventure, who was wont to be received with honour, wist not that the knight whom he had slain was son to the lord of the castle.
Who acts: Gawain, knight · What happens: be, receive, not wist, slay · To what, where: knight, son
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, knight), 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 | _ | 19 wist | cc |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 wist | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Father | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Father | det |
| 6 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Adventure | case |
| 8 | Adventure | Adventure | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Father | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wont | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wont | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wont | cop |
| 12 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Gawain | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 received | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 received | aux:pass |
| 15 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wont | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 honour | case |
| 17 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 received | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wist | punct |
| 19 | wist | wist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 wist | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 son | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 knight | det |
| 23 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 son | nsubj |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 slain | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 slain | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 slain | aux |
| 27 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 knight | acl:relcl |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 son | cop |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wist | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 lord | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 lord | det |
| 32 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wist | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 castle | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 castle | det |
| 35 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lord | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 wist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Gawain Sir | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive · passive | Gawain Sir not said here | with honour | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | not wist | present | Gawain Sir | to the lord of the castle | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | slay | past · perfect | knight | the knight | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the knight | son | 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.
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