Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 28
He was loth to delay or abide there, for he would fain, so soon as he might ride, fare in search of his comrade.
Who acts: Gawain · What happens: be, delay, abide, fain, ride, fare · To what, where: search, comrade
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), 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 | 3 loth | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loth | cop |
| 3 | loth | loth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 delay | mark |
| 5 | delay | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 loth | xcomp |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 abide | cc |
| 7 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 delay | conj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 abide | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fain | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 fain | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fain | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fain | aux |
| 13 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 abide | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ride | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 soon | advmod |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 ride | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 ride | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ride | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 ride | aux |
| 20 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 loth | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fare | punct |
| 22 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ride | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 search | case |
| 24 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fare | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 comrade | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 27 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 search | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Gawain | loth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | delay | to-infinitive | Gawain not said here | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | abide | infinitive | Gawain not said here | there | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fain | would | Gawain | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | ride | might | Gawain | soon property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | fare | infinitive | Gawain not said here | search of Gawain's comrade | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | search | Gawain's comrade | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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