Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 101
There was among them no sword so good but had Sir Gawain held it, and smote with it three such blows as he was oft wont to deal with his own, it had broken, or bent, and profited them no whit.
Who acts: sword, Gawain · What happens: be, have, hold, smote, deal, break · To what, where: sword, three such blows, hounds
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, Gawain), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 good | cop |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 was | obl |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 sword | det |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 good | nsubj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 good | advmod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 good | conj |
| 11 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 held | nsubj |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | ccomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 held | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 smote | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 smote | cc |
| 17 | smote | smote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 good | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 smote | obl |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 blows | nummod |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 blows | amod |
| 22 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 smote | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 wont | case |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 wont | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 wont | cop |
| 26 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wont | amod |
| 27 | wont | wont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 smote | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 deal | mark |
| 29 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wont | acl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 own | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 own | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 deal | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 broken | punct |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 broken | aux |
| 36 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 smote | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 bent | punct |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 bent | cc |
| 39 | bent | bent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 broken | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 profited | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 profited | cc |
| 42 | profited | profit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 broken | conj |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 profited | obj |
| 44 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 45 whit | det |
| 45 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 profited | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | no sword | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | no sword not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hold | past | Gawain Sir | sword | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | smote | infinitive | no sword not said here | three such blows | with sword | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | past | Gawain | as oft wont | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | deal | to-infinitive | no sword not said here | with Gawain's own | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with own=Theme | ||||
| 7 | break | past · perfect · passive | sword | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 8 | profit | past | hounds = hound | no whit obj | 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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