Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 60
Straightway the seneschal betook him to a fair chamber (hearken ye to an evil tale!) where he found Sir Gawain's weapons and his good armour.
Who acts: Straightway seneschal, seneschal · What happens: betake, hearken, find · To what, where: bade, ye, weapons
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 (Straightway seneschal, seneschal), 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 | Straightway | Straightway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seneschal | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 seneschal | det |
| 3 | seneschal | seneschal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 betook | nsubj |
| 4 | betook | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 betook | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 chamber | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chamber | det |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chamber | amod |
| 9 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 betook | obl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 hearken | punct |
| 11 | hearken | hearken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 betook | conj |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 hearken | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 tale | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tale | det |
| 15 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tale | amod |
| 16 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hearken | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 hearken | punct |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 hearken | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 found | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hearken | advcl |
| 22 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Gawain | case |
| 25 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 found | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 armour | cc |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 armour | nmod:poss |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 armour | amod |
| 29 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 weapons | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 betook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betake | past | the Straightway seneschal | bade | to a fair chamber | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hearken | infinitive | the Straightway seneschal not said here | ye | to a evil tale | tree rules | |||
| 3 | find | past | seneschal | Gawain Sir's weapons and seneschal's good armour | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Topic |
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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