Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 41

Sir Gawain abode not still, but went as best he might to the window; he looked upon the knight, and deemed by his armour and the tokens whereby a man may be known of men, that 'twas his own brother, Sir Gariët, the son alike of his father and of his mother.

Who acts: Sir, that · What happens: not abide, go, look, deem, know, twa · To what, where: best, window, man

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, that), 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	3 abode	nsubj
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sir	flat
3	abode	abide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 abode	advmod
5	still	still	ADV	_	3 abode	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 abode	conj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 best	advmod
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 went	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 might	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 went	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 window	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 window	det
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 abode	conj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 knight	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 knight	det
21	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 deemed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 deemed	cc
24	deemed	deem	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 abode	parataxis
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 armour	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 armour	nmod:poss
27	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 deemed	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tokens	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tokens	det
30	tokens	token	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 armour	conj
31	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	36 known	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 known	nsubj:pass
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 known	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 known	aux:pass
36	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 deemed	advcl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 men	case
38	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 known	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 twas	punct
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 twas	nsubj
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	42 twas	punct
42	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 men	appos
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 brother	nmod:poss
44	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 brother	amod
45	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 twas	appos
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Sir	punct
47	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 brother	appos
48	Gariët	Gariët	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Sir	flat
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 son	punct
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 son	det
51	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 brother	conj
52	alike	alike	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	55 father	case
53	of	of	ADP	_	52 alike	fixed
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 father	nmod:poss
55	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 known	obl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 mother	cc
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 mother	case
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 mother	nmod:poss
59	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 father	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 abode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not abide	past	Sir			still		tree rules
2	go	past	Sir not said here	best	the window			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location
3	look	past	Sir				upon the knight	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon knight=Theme
4	deem	participle					by Sir's armour and the tokens	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	know	may · passive		a man			of men; alike Sir's father and Sir's mother; whereby property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
6	twa		that				Sir's own brother and the son appos	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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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 41