Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 13
Now will I tell ye of Morien ere that I end the tale of Sir Gawain.
Who acts: I, Morien, Gawain · What happens: tell, ere, end · To what, where: ye, tale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Morien, Gawain), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 tell | advmod |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 ere | mark |
| 7 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ere | nsubj |
| 8 | ere | ere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 end | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 end | nsubj |
| 11 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ere | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tale | det |
| 13 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 end | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Gawain | case |
| 15 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 tale | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | I | ye | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | ere | past | Morien | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | end | present | I | the tale of Gawain Sir | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tale=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | tell | Gawain Sir | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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