Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 81
Now cometh great sorrow upon Sir Gawain.
What happens: come · To what, where: great sorrow
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: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 cometh | advmod |
| 2 | cometh | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sorrow | amod |
| 4 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cometh | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 Gawain | case |
| 6 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sorrow | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cometh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | great sorrow | now | upon Gawain Sir | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sorrow=Theme |
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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