Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 85
The host bade them take in ward Sir Gawain's armour and his sword; too far did they carry them!
Who acts: words · What happens: take, carry · To what, where: host bade, ward, laws
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 (words), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bade | det |
| 2 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bade | compound |
| 3 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ward | case |
| 7 | ward | ward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 8 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 armour | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sir | flat |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Sir | case |
| 11 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sword | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 armour | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 carry | punct |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 far | advmod |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 carry | advmod |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 carry | aux |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | nsubj |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | words = word | the host bade | ward | Sir's armour and Sir's sword obj | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent armour=Value in ward=Location | ||
| 2 | carry | past · do-support | words = word | laws = law | far property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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