Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 5
They bound Sir Gawain's hands, and set him on a sorry hack, and to anger him they led beside him Gringalet, his steed.
Who acts: smart, anger · What happens: bound, set, lead · To what, where: hands, Sir, sorry hack, Gringalet
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 (smart, anger), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bound | nsubj |
| 2 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Gawain | case |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bound | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bound | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 hack | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hack | det |
| 13 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hack | amod |
| 14 | hack | hack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 led | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 led | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 anger | mark |
| 18 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 led | nsubj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 anger | obj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 led | nsubj |
| 21 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bound | conj |
| 22 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 led | obl |
| 24 | Gringalet | Gringalet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 led | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 steed | punct |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 steed | nmod:poss |
| 27 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Gringalet | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | present | smart | Gawain Sir's hands | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | smart not said here | Sir | a sorry hack | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on hack=Destination | |||
| 3 | lead | past | anger Sir | Gringalet | beside Sir; smart nsubj | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gringalet=Theme beside he=Destination |
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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