Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 99
Like as a wild boar defends himself against the hounds that pursue him, even so did Sir Gawain defend himself, but it helped him naught.
Who acts: wild boar, hounds, Gawain, chance · What happens: defend, pursue, help · To what, where: boar, 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 (wild boar, hounds, Gawain, chance), 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 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 6 defends | discourse |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 boar | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boar | det |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boar | amod |
| 5 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 defends | nsubj |
| 6 | defends | defend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 defends | obj |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 hounds | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hounds | det |
| 10 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 defends | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 pursue | nsubj |
| 12 | pursue | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hounds | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pursue | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 defend | punct |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 defend | advmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 defend | advmod |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 defend | aux |
| 18 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 defend | nsubj |
| 20 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 defends | conj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 defend | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 helped | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 helped | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 helped | nsubj |
| 25 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 defends | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 helped | obj |
| 27 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 25 helped | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 defends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defend | present | a wild boar | boar | against the hounds | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary against hound=Theme | |||
| 2 | pursue | present | the hounds | boar | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | defend | past · do-support | Gawain Sir | Gawain | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | help | past | chance | Gawain | naught obj | 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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