Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 53
Sir Gawain sat by the wayside in sorry plight, with his hands bound; but the good knight Morien so drave aback the folk who had brought him thither that they had little thought for him.
Who acts: Sir, hands, good knight · What happens: sit, bound, drave, bring, think · To what, where: sorry plight, aback folk, knights
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 (Sir, hands, good knight), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 wayside | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wayside | det |
| 6 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 plight | case |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plight | amod |
| 9 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bound | punct |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 bound | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bound | nsubj |
| 14 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 drave | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 drave | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 knight | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 knight | amod |
| 19 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drave | nsubj |
| 20 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 knight | appos |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 drave | advmod |
| 22 | drave | drave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sat | advcl |
| 23 | aback | aback | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 folk | amod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 folk | det |
| 25 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drave | obj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 brought | aux |
| 28 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 folk | acl:relcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 brought | obj |
| 30 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 28 brought | advmod |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 thought | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 thought | aux |
| 34 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 thought | advmod |
| 35 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 brought | advcl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 thought | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Sir | sorry plight | by the wayside | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wayside=Location | |||
| 2 | bound | present | Sir's hands | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drave | infinitive | the good knight | the aback folk | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the aback folk | Sir obj; thither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past · perfect · passive | knights = knight | for Sir; little property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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