Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 45
I am Gawain, your comrade; little did I foresee this mischance when we parted, you and I, at this cross-way!
Who acts: I, we · What happens: be, foresee, part · To what, where: Gawain, mischance, cross-way, you
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, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 Gawain | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Gawain | cop |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 comrade | punct |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 6 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Gawain | appos |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 foresee | punct |
| 8 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 foresee | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 foresee | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 foresee | nsubj |
| 11 | foresee | foresee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Gawain | conj |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 mischance | det |
| 13 | mischance | mischance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 foresee | obj |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 parted | advmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 parted | nsubj |
| 16 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 foresee | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 you | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 parted | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 I | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 you | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cross-way | punct |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 cross-way | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 cross-way | det |
| 24 | cross-way | cross-way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 foresee | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Gawain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | Gawain | your comrade appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | foresee | past · do-support | I | this mischance | this cross-way | little property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischance=Theme | ||
| 3 | part | past | we | you | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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