Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 66
The seneschal held in his hand the false sword, well hidden in its sheath, and the while Sir Gawain made him ready did he gird it at his side--for that was the knight thereafter unblithe.
Who acts: Sir, seneschal, that · What happens: hold, hide, make, gird, be · To what, where: seneschal, hand, sheath, treason, side
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 (Sir, seneschal, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 seneschal | det |
| 2 | seneschal | seneschal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seneschal | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sword | det |
| 8 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sword | amod |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seneschal | punct |
| 11 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 12 hidden | discourse |
| 12 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 gird | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sheath | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sheath | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hidden | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 made | det |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 made | mark |
| 20 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj |
| 21 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Sir | flat |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hidden | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 made | xcomp |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 gird | aux |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 gird | nsubj |
| 27 | gird | gird | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 gird | obj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 side | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 side | nmod:poss |
| 31 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gird | obl |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 knight | punct |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 knight | case |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 knight | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 knight | cop |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 knight | det |
| 37 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gird | parataxis |
| 38 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 39 unblithe | advmod |
| 39 | unblithe | unblithe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 knight | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 gird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | participle | the seneschal not said here | seneschal's hand and the false sword | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location | ||||
| 2 | hide | participle · passive | the seneschal | sword's sheath | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in sheath=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Sir | seneschal | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | |||
| 4 | gird | past · do-support | seneschal | treason | seneschal's side | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | past | that | for the knight and unblithe; unblithe conj | 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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