Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 80
Then quoth Sir Gariët his brother, "Let us eat and drink, and begin our meal, as we have need to do--but where is Sir Lancelot, that I see him not here?
Who acts: you, us, we, God · What happens: quoth, let, eat, drink, begin, have · To what, where: Sir, us, meal · 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 (you, us, we, God), 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 quoth | advmod |
| 2 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 quoth | obj |
| 4 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sir | flat |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quoth | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Let | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Let | punct |
| 9 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 quoth | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Let | obj |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Let | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drink | cc |
| 13 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 eat | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 begin | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 begin | cc |
| 16 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 quoth | parataxis |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 meal | nmod:poss |
| 18 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 begin | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 begin | conj |
| 23 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 need | xcomp |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 Lancelot | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 Lancelot | cc |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 Sir | advmod |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 Sir | cop |
| 30 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Lancelot | nmod:desc |
| 31 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 quoth | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 see | punct |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 see | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 see | nsubj |
| 35 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 quoth | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 see | obj |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 see | advmod |
| 38 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 see | advmod |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | imperative | you not said here | Sir | then | Lancelot obl; Sir's brother obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | begin in a quote | present | our meal | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | need in a quote | present | we not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is a in a quote | present | Sir | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | not see in a quote | present | God | Sir | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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