Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 72
Quoth Sir Gawain the bold: "Though 'twere hard and painful to me yet would I for seven years long wear haircloth next my body, wherever I fared, for this that ye have received me so well.
Who acts: weapons · What happens: fare, receive · To what, where: this, Gawain bold
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), 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 | 5 bold | compound |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bold | det |
| 5 | bold | bold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 hard | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Though | punct |
| 8 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 hard | mark |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Though | punct |
| 10 | twere | twere | ADV | _ | 11 hard | advmod |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 bold | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 painful | cc |
| 13 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hard | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 painful | obl |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 painful | advmod |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 painful | aux |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 would | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 20 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 I | obl |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 haircloth | amod |
| 23 | wear | wear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 haircloth | compound |
| 24 | haircloth | haircloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 years | acl |
| 25 | next | next | ADP | _ | 27 body | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 body | nmod:poss |
| 27 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 haircloth | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fared | punct |
| 29 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 fared | advmod |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 fared | nsubj |
| 31 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 haircloth | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 received | punct |
| 33 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 received | mark |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 received | nsubj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 received | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 received | nsubj |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 received | aux |
| 38 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 fared | parataxis |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 received | obj |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 well | advmod |
| 41 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 received | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fare in a quote | past | weapons = weapon | wherever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive in a quote | present · perfect · passive | this | that nsubj:pass; ye nsubj; me obj; well property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme i=Location |
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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