Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 76

He knew the two knights well, when he heard their tale, and how that they were even the same who had but lately passed his way, and he spake to the Father of Adventure: "Even so did I foretell ye when ye would ride toward that land, and I prayed ye to refrain.

Who acts: Sir, knights, Gawain, ye · What happens: know, hear, be, have, pass, speak · To what, where: two knights, tale, way, ye, land · 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 (Sir, knights, Gawain, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knights	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 knights	nummod
5	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 heard	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tale	nmod:poss
12	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 same	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 same	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 same	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 same	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 same	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 same	cop
19	even	even	ADV	_	21 same	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 same	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heard	parataxis
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 same	parataxis
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 passed	cc
25	lately	lately	ADV	_	26 passed	advmod
26	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 had	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 way	nmod:poss
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 passed	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 spake	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 spake	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 spake	nsubj
32	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 Father	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Father	det
35	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 spake	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Adventure	case
37	Adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Father	nmod
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 foretell	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 foretell	punct
40	Even	even	ADV	_	41 so	advmod
41	so	so	ADV	_	44 foretell	advmod
42	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 foretell	aux
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 foretell	nsubj
44	foretell	foretell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	conj
45	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	44 foretell	obj
46	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	49 ride	advmod
47	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	49 ride	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 ride	aux
49	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 foretell	parataxis
50	toward	toward	ADP	_	52 land	case
51	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 land	det
52	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 ride	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 prayed	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 prayed	cc
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 prayed	nsubj
56	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
57	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	56 prayed	obj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 refrain	mark
59	refrain	refrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 prayed	xcomp
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	Sir	the two knights		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus
2	hear	past	Sir	knights's tale			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus
3	is	past	knights = knight			same property	tree rules
4	have	past				who nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	pass	past		Sir's way		lately property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
6	speak speech: other		Sir			to the Father of Adventure	tree rules
7	foretell in a quote	past · do-support	Gawain	ye			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme
8	ride in a quote	would	ye		that land		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent toward land=Trajectory
9	pray in a quote	past	Gawain	ye			tree rules
10	refrain in a quote	to-infinitive	Gawain not said here				vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	tell		knights = knight				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 76

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 76