Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 96
His sword protected him not a whit--he who gave it to him God give him woe!
Who acts: sword, Sir, God · What happens: not protect, give · To what, where: Sir, sword, Gawain, woe
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 (sword, Sir, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sword | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 protected | nsubj |
| 3 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 protected | obj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 protected | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 whit | det |
| 7 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 protected | obj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 protected | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | obl |
| 15 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 give | nsubj |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 gave | ccomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 protected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not protect | past | Sir's sword | Sir | a whit obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | past | Sir | sword | Gawain | who nsubj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | give | infinitive | God | woe | Sir | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient woe=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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