Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 78

Then laughed Sir Gawain the bold when he heard him speak of food, and said that he had come thither in a good hour since they had no victuals, much or little, nor drink there within, nor knew they where they might find any had he brought none with him.

Who acts: Gawain, Sir, man · What happens: laugh, hear, speak, say, come, have · To what, where: Gawain, Sir, victuals, had, none · 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 (Gawain, Sir, man), 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	2 laughed	advmod
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Gawain	nmod:desc
4	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laughed	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bold	det
6	bold	bold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughed	obl:unmarked
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 heard	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	obj
11	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 heard	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 food	case
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speak	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 said	ccomp
21	thither	thither	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 hour	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hour	det
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hour	amod
25	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
26	since	since	SCONJ	_	28 had	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	advcl
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 victuals	det
30	victuals	victual	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 much	punct
32	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 victuals	amod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 little	cc
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 much	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 drink	punct
36	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	37 drink	cc
37	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughed	parataxis
38	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 laughed	advmod
39	within	within	ADP	_	2 laughed	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 knew	punct
41	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	42 knew	cc
42	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	parataxis
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 find	nsubj
44	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	47 find	advmod
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 find	nsubj
46	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 find	aux
47	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 knew	ccomp
48	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	49 had	det
49	had	had	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 find	obj
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 brought	nsubj
51	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 had	acl:relcl
52	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	51 brought	obj
53	with	with	ADP	_	54 him	case
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 brought	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past		Gawain Sir	there	then	the bold obl:unmarked; drink parataxis	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gawain=Theme
2	hear	past	Gawain	Sir				tree rules
3	speak speech: other	infinitive	Sir not said here				of food	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come	past · perfect	Gawain			hour	thither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	past	man	no victuals				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victual=Patient
7	know	past						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	find	might	man	any had				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent had=Topic
9	bring	past	Gawain	none			with Sir	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent none=Theme

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 78

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 78