Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 29
Yet must he tarry a day ere he might mount his steed, such was his stress from the wounds he had received--sooth, it was a marvel that he escaped!
Who acts: Gawain, steed · What happens: tarry, mount, be, receive, escape · To what, where: steed, wounds, marvel
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, steed), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 tarry | cc |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tarry | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tarry | nsubj |
| 4 | tarry | tarry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tarry | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 10 mount | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mount | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 mount | aux |
| 10 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tarry | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 steed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mount | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stress | punct |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 17 stress | case |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stress | cop |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 stress | nmod:poss |
| 17 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 steed | appos |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 wounds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wounds | det |
| 20 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stress | nmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 received | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 received | aux |
| 23 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 wounds | acl:relcl |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 sooth | punct |
| 25 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 steed | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 marvel | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 marvel | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 marvel | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 marvel | det |
| 30 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tarry | parataxis |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 escaped | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 escaped | nsubj |
| 33 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 marvel | advcl |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 tarry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tarry | must | Gawain | day | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mount | might | Gawain | Gawain's steed and sooth | ere property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | the wounds | such Gawain's stress; Gawain nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | receive | past · perfect | Gawain | the wounds not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | steed | a marvel | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | escape | past | Gawain | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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