Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 43
The more Sir Gawain looked upon him the more he deemed he knew him; and when he came nigh to the Hermitage he knew well the arms that he bare.
Who acts: Gawain, Sir, arms · What happens: look, deem, know, come, bear · To what, where: Gawain, Hermitage, arms
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, arms), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Gawain | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 Sir | amod |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 more | det |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 deemed | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 deemed | nsubj |
| 11 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | advcl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 deemed | ccomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 knew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 knew | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 came | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 knew | advcl |
| 20 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Hermitage | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Hermitage | det |
| 23 | Hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 knew | nsubj |
| 25 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 knew | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 arms | det |
| 28 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 knew | obj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 bare | nsubj |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 bare | nsubj |
| 31 | bare | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 arms | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Gawain more Sir | upon Sir | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | deem | past | Sir | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know | past | Sir | Gawain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Sir | the Hermitage | nigh property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hermitage=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | know | past | Sir | the arms | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer arm=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | bear | infinitive | the arms | Sir nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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