Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 62
And the saddle-girths did the traitor so handle that Sir Gawain was sore grieved there-for ere he had ridden a mile; he would not that it had so chanced for all King Arthur's kingdom--that shall ye hear anon.
Who acts: saddle girths, Gawain, ye · What happens: do, be, grieve, ride, not chance, hear · To what, where: traitor, handle, mile, Gawain, kingdom
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 (saddle girths, Gawain, ye), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 did | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girths | det |
| 3 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girths | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 saddle | punct |
| 5 | girths | girth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 traitor | det |
| 8 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 handle | mark |
| 10 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 sore | mark |
| 12 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sore | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sore | cop |
| 15 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 handle | acl |
| 16 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sore | ccomp |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 grieved | advmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 ridden | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 ere | case |
| 20 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ridden | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ridden | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ridden | aux |
| 23 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 grieved | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mile | det |
| 25 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ridden | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 chanced | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 chanced | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 chanced | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 chanced | advmod |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 chanced | mark |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 chanced | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 chanced | aux |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 chanced | advmod |
| 34 | chanced | chance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sore | conj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 kingdom | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 Arthur | det |
| 37 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Arthur | compound |
| 38 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 Arthur | case |
| 40 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 chanced | obl |
| 41 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 45 hear | punct |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 hear | obj |
| 43 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 hear | aux |
| 44 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 45 hear | nsubj |
| 45 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 46 | anon | anon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hear | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the saddle girths | the traitor | handle xcomp | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traitor=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | past | Gawain Sir | handle not said here | sore property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | grieve | participle | Gawain Sir not said here | there | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | ride | past · perfect | Gawain | a mile | for ere | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Theme | |||
| 5 | not chance | would · perfect · passive | Gawain | for all King Arthur's kingdom; mile nsubj:pass | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | hear | shall | ye | all King Arthur's kingdom | anon 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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