Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 82
He deemed that he had safe conduct, but he had lost from its sheath his sword, which had been stolen from him; and that which the seneschal had put in its place when he drew forth the good brand was more brittle than glass.
Who acts: Gawain, good brand · What happens: deem, have, lose, steal, put, draw · To what, where: safe conduct, sheath, place
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 (Gawain, good brand), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 deemed | nsubj |
| 2 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 deemed | ccomp |
| 6 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 conduct | amod |
| 7 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lost | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 lost | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lost | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lost | aux |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 deemed | conj |
| 13 | from | from | 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 lost | obl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sword | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sheath | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stolen | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stolen | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 stolen | aux:pass |
| 22 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sheath | acl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stolen | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 put | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 put | cc |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 which | mark |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 put | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 seneschal | det |
| 30 | seneschal | seneschal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 put | aux |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 deemed | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 place | case |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 place | nmod:poss |
| 35 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | obl |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 drew | advmod |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 drew | nsubj |
| 38 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 put | advcl |
| 39 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 38 drew | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 brand | det |
| 41 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 brand | amod |
| 42 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 brittle | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 brittle | cop |
| 44 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 45 brittle | amod |
| 45 | brittle | brittle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 drew | ccomp |
| 46 | than | than | ADP | _ | 47 glass | case |
| 47 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 brittle | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 deemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deem | past | Gawain | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Gawain | safe conduct | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect | Gawain | conduct's sheath Gawain's sword | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from sheath=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | steal | past · perfect · passive | conduct's sheath Gawain's sword | from Gawain | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from he=Source | ||||
| 5 | put | past · perfect · passive | conduct's place | which nsubj:pass; the seneschal nsubj:pass | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in place=Destination | ||||
| 6 | draw | past | Gawain | forth property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the good brand | than glass; brittle property | 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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