Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 40
Thus was Sir Gawain a captive, and knew not what he might do. '
Who acts: Gawain, Sir · What happens: be, not know, do · To what, where: Gawain · 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 (Gawain, 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 Gawain | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Gawain | cop |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 captive | det |
| 6 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Gawain | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knew | cc |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Gawain | acl:relcl |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 knew | advmod |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 do | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 knew | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Gawain | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Gawain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Gawain | Sir nmod:desc; a captive appos; thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | past | Gawain not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | might | Sir | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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