Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 27
Morien's heart was set upon following his father, and Sir Gawain was of a mind to ride in quest of Sir Lancelot, and learn how it had fared with him.
Who acts: Gawain, Sir · What happens: set, follow, be, ride, learn, fare · To what, where: heart, father, quest · 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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain, Sir), 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 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Morien | case |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux:pass |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 7 following | mark |
| 7 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 set | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 following | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mind | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mind | cc |
| 12 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 mind | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 mind | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mind | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mind | det |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 ride | mark |
| 19 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 mind | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 quest | case |
| 21 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ride | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Sir | case |
| 23 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 quest | nmod |
| 24 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sir | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 learn | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 learn | cc |
| 27 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ride | conj |
| 28 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 fared | advmod |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fared | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 fared | aux |
| 31 | fared | fare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 learn | ccomp |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fared | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | Morien's heart | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | heart's father | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Gawain Sir | of a mind | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ride | to-infinitive | quest of Sir | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | learn | infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | fare | past · perfect · passive | quest | with heart | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | quest | Sir | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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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