Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 98
Sir Gawain stood empty-handed, small chance had he of escape, and they who beset him were chosen men, over-strong and over-fierce, as was there well proven.
Who acts: Gawain, small chance, man · What happens: stand, hand, have, beset, choose, be · To what, where: Gawain
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, small chance, man), 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 | 2 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 handed | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 empty | punct |
| 6 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chance | amod |
| 9 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 escape | case |
| 13 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beset | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 beset | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 beset | nsubj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 beset | nsubj |
| 18 | beset | beset | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 beset | obj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 chosen | aux:pass |
| 21 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 men | amod |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 beset | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 over-strong | punct |
| 24 | over-strong | over-strong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 men | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 over-fierce | cc |
| 26 | over-fierce | over-fierce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 over-strong | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 there | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 there | mark |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 there | cop |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 beset | advmod |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 proven | advmod |
| 32 | proven | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 there | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Gawain Sir | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hand | participle | Gawain Sir not said here | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | past | small chance | Gawain | of escape | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 4 | beset | present | man | Gawain | who nsubj; chosen men and over-strong and over-fierce obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | choose | past · passive | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | prove | participle | well property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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