Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 82
Sir Gawain had come to that point that he deemed he was well assured of shelter for the night, nor was he on guard against his heavy mischance.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: come, deem, assure, be · To what, where: point, Sir, guard
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), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 point | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 point | det |
| 7 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 deemed | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 deemed | nsubj |
| 10 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | advcl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 assured | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 assured | aux:pass |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 assured | advmod |
| 14 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 deemed | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 shelter | case |
| 16 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assured | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 night | det |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assured | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 guard | punct |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 guard | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 guard | cop |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 guard | nsubj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 guard | case |
| 25 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | parataxis |
| 26 | against | against | ADP | _ | 29 mischance | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mischance | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 mischance | amod |
| 29 | mischance | mischance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 guard | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | Sir | that point | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to point=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | deem | past | Sir | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | assure | past · passive | Sir | night | of shelter; well property | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of shelter=Topic | |||
| 4 | is | past | Sir | guard | against Sir's heavy mischance | 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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