Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 43

And Sir Gawain, who sat there sore mishandled, knew that well, and as Morien came nigh, he cried, so that all might hear: "Dear my comrade, ye be welcome.

Who acts: Gawain, Morien, all, ye · What happens: sit, mishandle, know, come, cry, hear · 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 (Gawain, Morien, all, ye), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 knew	cc
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Gawain	nmod:desc
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 knew	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Gawain	acl:relcl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sat	advmod
8	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mishandled	amod
9	mishandled	mishandle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sat	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Gawain	punct
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	ADV	_	11 knew	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 knew	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cried	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
17	Morien	Morien	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cried	advcl
19	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cried	nsubj
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 knew	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hear	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	28 hear	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 hear	mark
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 hear	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 hear	aux
28	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cried	conj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 Dear	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 Dear	punct
31	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hear	parataxis
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 comrade	nmod:poss
33	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Dear	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 welcome	punct
35	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 welcome	nsubj
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 welcome	cop
37	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Dear	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Gawain Sir	there		tree rules
2	mishandle	participle	Gawain Sir not said here			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	know	past	Gawain Sir		that, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	come	past	Morien		nigh property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cry speech: express	past	Morien			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hear	might	all			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	is in a quote	infinitive	ye		welcome property	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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 43

The tree

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 43