Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 70
Quoth Sir Gawain: "Dear mine host, I grieve that ye yet sorrow; so may God guard me and bring me to His grace when I die as I truly mourn for your mischance.
Who acts: weapons, ye, God · What happens: grieve, sorrow, guard, bring, die, mourn · To what, where: weapons, grace, Dear mine host
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 (weapons, ye, God), 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | compound |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 host | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 host | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 host | punct |
| 6 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 host | amod |
| 7 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 host | compound |
| 8 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grieve | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 grieve | nsubj |
| 11 | grieve | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 host | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 sorrow | mark |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 sorrow | nsubj |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 sorrow | advmod |
| 15 | sorrow | sorrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 grieve | advcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 guard | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 guard | advmod |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 guard | aux |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 guard | nsubj |
| 20 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 host | parataxis |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 guard | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bring | cc |
| 23 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 guard | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 bring | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 grace | case |
| 26 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 grace | nmod:poss |
| 27 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | obl |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 die | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 die | nsubj |
| 30 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bring | advcl |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 mourn | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 mourn | nsubj |
| 33 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 34 mourn | advmod |
| 34 | mourn | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 die | advcl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 mischance | case |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 mischance | nmod:poss |
| 37 | mischance | mischance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 mourn | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 host | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve in a quote | present | weapons = weapon | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | sorrow in a quote | present | ye | yet | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | guard in a quote | may | God | weapons = weapon | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | infinitive | God not said here | weapons = weapon | God's grace | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to grace=Destination | |||
| 5 | die in a quote | present | weapons = weapon | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | mourn in a quote | present | weapons = weapon | for your mischance; truly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for mischance=Attribute |
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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