Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 85
Then Sir Gawain and Morien his comrade thanked him much, and went their way to the chapel, where they abode throughout the day; each told to the other his adventures as they had befallen, neither more nor less.
Who acts: Sir, comrades · What happens: thank, go, abide, tell, befall, adventure · To what, where: Morien, way, each, adventures · 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, comrades), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sir | flat |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Morien | cc |
| 5 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sir | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 7 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thanked | nsubj |
| 8 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thanked | obj |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 thanked | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thanked | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 chapel | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chapel | det |
| 18 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 abode | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 abode | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 abode | nsubj |
| 22 | abode | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 chapel | acl:relcl |
| 23 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 abode | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 told | punct |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 told | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 thanked | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 other | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 other | det |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 told | obl |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 33 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 told | iobj |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 befallen | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 befallen | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 befallen | aux |
| 37 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 told | ccomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 more | punct |
| 39 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 40 more | cc:preconj |
| 40 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 befallen | advmod |
| 41 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 42 less | cc |
| 42 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 more | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Sir and Morien | Morien | then | Sir's comrade nsubj | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 2 | go | past | Sir and Morien not said here | comrades's way | to the chapel | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 3 | abide | past | comrades = comrade | day | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | participle · passive | each | Sir's adventures | to the other | tree rules | |||
| 5 | befall | past · perfect | comrades = comrade | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | adventure | Sir | nom adventure «act transitive»: 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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