Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 67
The while they thus made ready came the lord of the castle to Sir Gawain, and said: "Ye are early astir Sir Knight; how comes it that ye be thus hurried at this time?
Who acts: hand, while, Ye · What happens: make, come, say, be, hurry · To what, where: while, castle, that · 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 (hand, while, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 while | det |
| 2 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 made | advmod |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 while | acl:relcl |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 made | xcomp |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lord | det |
| 9 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lord | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Sir | case |
| 14 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 castle | nmod |
| 15 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sir | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 astir | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 astir | punct |
| 21 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 astir | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 astir | cop |
| 23 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 astir | advmod |
| 24 | astir | astir | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | ccomp |
| 25 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Knight | compound |
| 26 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 astir | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 comes | punct |
| 28 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 comes | advmod |
| 29 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 comes | obj |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 hurried | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 hurried | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 hurried | aux:pass |
| 34 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 35 hurried | advmod |
| 35 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 comes | conj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 time | case |
| 37 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 time | det |
| 38 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hurried | obl |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | hand | the while not said here | ready, thus property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset while=Product | |||
| 2 | come | past | the while | the lord of the castle to Sir nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Ye | Sir Knight conj; astir, early property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | present | castle | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hurry in a quote | infinitive · passive | that | time | ye nsubj:pass; thus property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent |
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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