Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 24
Sir Gawain was somewhat troubled, since he lacked alike arms and clothing: also his wounds, which were sore, pained him the more.
Who acts: Sir, wounds · What happens: be, lack, pain, wound · To what, where: alike arms, Sir
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, wounds), 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 | 5 troubled | nsubj |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 troubled | cop |
| 4 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 5 troubled | advmod |
| 5 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lacked | punct |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 9 lacked | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lacked | nsubj |
| 9 | lacked | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 troubled | parataxis |
| 10 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 arms | amod |
| 11 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lacked | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 clothing | cc |
| 13 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arms | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 wounds | punct |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 wounds | advmod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 arms | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sore | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sore | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sore | cop |
| 21 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wounds | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pained | punct |
| 23 | pained | pain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lacked | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pained | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 more | det |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 pained | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sir | somewhat, troubled property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lack | past | Sir | alike arms and clothing and Sir's wounds | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Sir's wounds | sore property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pain | past | Sir not said here | Sir | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | wound | Sir | nom wound «state 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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