Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 36
Morien was loth to remain, yet he thought it shame to forsake his comrade, Sir Gawain, and thus he abode with him in the chapel.
Who acts: Morien · What happens: be, remain, think, forsake, abide · To what, where: sore, comrade, chapel · 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 (Morien), 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 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 remain | mark |
| 5 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 loth | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loth | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | obj |
| 11 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 forsake | mark |
| 13 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 15 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forsake | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sir | punct |
| 17 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 comrade | appos |
| 18 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Sir | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 abode | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 abode | cc |
| 21 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 23 abode | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 abode | nsubj |
| 23 | abode | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loth | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 abode | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 chapel | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chapel | det |
| 28 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 abode | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Morien | loth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | to-infinitive | Morien not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Morien | sore | shame obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | forsake | to-infinitive | Morien's comrade | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | abide | past | Morien | the chapel | with Sir; thus property | tree rules |
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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