Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 59

This marked well his brother, Sir Gawain, and he gave him to wit of the knight, and of his name, who he was, and whence he came, ere he asked him aught; for he saw well that he somewhat misdoubted him when he saw the good knight Morien of such countenance.

Who acts: This, Sir · What happens: mark, give, wit, be, come, ask · To what, where: brother, Morien, aught, good knight

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 (This, Sir), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 marked	nsubj
2	marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 marked	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Sir	punct
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brother	appos
8	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Sir	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 marked	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 wit	mark
15	wit	wit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gave	xcomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 knight	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 knight	det
18	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wit	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 name	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 name	cc
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 name	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 name	nmod:poss
23	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marked	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 was	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 was	nsubj
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 came	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 came	cc
30	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	32 came	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 name	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 asked	punct
34	ere	ere	ADV	_	36 asked	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 asked	nsubj
36	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 came	parataxis
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 asked	iobj
38	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	36 asked	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 saw	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 saw	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 saw	nsubj
42	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 asked	conj
43	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 saw	advmod
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 misdoubted	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 misdoubted	nsubj
46	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	47 misdoubted	advmod
47	misdoubted	misdoubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 saw	advcl
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 misdoubted	obj
49	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	51 saw	advmod
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 saw	nsubj
51	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 misdoubted	advcl
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 knight	det
53	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 knight	amod
54	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 saw	obj
55	Morien	Morien	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 knight	appos
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 countenance	case
57	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 countenance	amod
58	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 Morien	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 marked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mark	past	This	Morien's brother		Sir's name parataxis; well property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
2	give	past	Sir		Morien		tree rules
3	wit	to-infinitive	Sir not said here			of the knight	tree rules
4	be	past				who nsubj; Sir nsubj	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	Sir			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	Sir	aught	Morien	ere property	tree rules
7	see	past	Sir			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	misdoubt	past	Sir	Morien		somewhat property	tree rules
9	see	past	Sir	the good knight			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus
10	name		Sir				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 59

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 59