Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 16
Thus came the host to where Sir Gawain stood, and spake: "Sir Knight, be not wroth that my folk entreat ye not better.
Who acts: host, Sir, folk · What happens: come, stand, not be, entreat · To what, where: spake, ye · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (host, Sir, folk), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 host | det |
| 4 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 9 stood | mark |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 stood | advmod |
| 7 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sir | flat |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spake | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spake | cc |
| 12 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Knight | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Knight | punct |
| 15 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Knight | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spake | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wroth | punct |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wroth | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 wroth | advmod |
| 20 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Knight | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 entreat | mark |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 folk | nmod:poss |
| 23 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 entreat | nsubj |
| 24 | entreat | entreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wroth | csubj |
| 25 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 entreat | obj |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 better | advmod |
| 27 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 entreat | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the host | spake | thus property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Sir | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | infinitive | the host not said here | wroth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | entreat in a quote | infinitive | my folk | ye | good property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
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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