Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 44
Then was Sir Gawain gladder at heart than I may tell ye, for Sir Gariët his brother, that strong and valiant knight, brought with him that of which they were sorely in need, bread and meat, and wine fresh and clear.
Who acts: I, that · What happens: be, tell, bring · To what, where: Sir, ye, need · 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 (I, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Sir | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Sir | cop |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gladder | nsubj |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gladder | nsubj |
| 5 | gladder | glad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gladder | obl |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gladder | advcl |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sir | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Sir | case |
| 15 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sir | flat |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Sir | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 knight | punct |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 knight | det |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 knight | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 valiant | cc |
| 23 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 strong | conj |
| 24 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Sir | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 brought | punct |
| 26 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gladder | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 need | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 need | obl |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 need | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 need | cop |
| 34 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 36 need | advmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 need | case |
| 36 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brought | ccomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 bread | punct |
| 38 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 need | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 meat | cc |
| 40 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 need | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 fresh | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 fresh | cc |
| 43 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fresh | nsubj |
| 44 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gladder | parataxis |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 clear | cc |
| 46 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 fresh | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gladder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sir | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | may | I | ye | Sir and that strong knight ccomp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | |||
| 3 | bring | past | with Sir | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | that | need and bread and meat | which obl; Knight nsubj; bread conj; meat conj; sorely 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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