Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 86
Sir Gawain sat upon his steed and deemed that he should ride thence without strife or combat.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: sit, deem, ride · To what, where: steed
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 (Sir), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 steed | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 steed | nmod:poss |
| 6 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 deemed | cc |
| 8 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 ride | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ride | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ride | aux |
| 12 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 deemed | advcl |
| 13 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 12 ride | advmod |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 strife | case |
| 15 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ride | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 combat | cc |
| 17 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 strife | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Sir | Sir's steed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon steed=Location | ||||
| 2 | deem | past | Sir not said here | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ride | should | Sir | without strife or combat; thence property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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