Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 108
Sir Agloval looked through the wicket, and was ware of Sir Gariët, Sir Gawain's brother, and bethought him how that he belonged to King Arthur's court and was worthy of great honour, for though he were not so well known throughout the land as was his brother Sir Gawain, yet was he a strong knight and bold, and a doer of valiant deeds.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: look, be, bethink, belong, not know · To what, where: ware, Sir, strong knight
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 wicket | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wicket | det |
| 6 | wicket | wicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ware | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ware | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ware | cop |
| 10 | ware | ware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Gariët | case |
| 12 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Gariët | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ware | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brother | punct |
| 15 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Gawain | case |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Gariët | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bethought | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bethought | cc |
| 21 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bethought | obj |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 belonged | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 belonged | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 belonged | nsubj |
| 26 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bethought | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 court | case |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Arthur | compound |
| 29 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 court | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Arthur | case |
| 31 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 belonged | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 worthy | cc |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 worthy | cop |
| 34 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bethought | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 honour | case |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 honour | amod |
| 37 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 worthy | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 known | punct |
| 39 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 46 known | mark |
| 40 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 46 known | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 known | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 known | aux:pass |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 known | advmod |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 well | advmod |
| 45 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 known | advmod |
| 46 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 bethought | parataxis |
| 47 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 49 land | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 land | det |
| 49 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 known | obl |
| 50 | as | as | ADP | _ | 53 brother | case |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 brother | cop |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 brother | nmod:poss |
| 53 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 known | obl |
| 54 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 brother | appos |
| 55 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Sir | flat |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 knight | punct |
| 57 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 62 knight | cc |
| 58 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 62 knight | cop |
| 59 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 knight | nsubj |
| 60 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 62 knight | det |
| 61 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 knight | amod |
| 62 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 bold | cc |
| 64 | bold | bold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 knight | conj |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 doer | punct |
| 66 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 68 doer | cc |
| 67 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 68 doer | det |
| 68 | doer | doer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 knight | conj |
| 69 | of | of | ADP | _ | 71 deeds | case |
| 70 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 71 deeds | amod |
| 71 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 68 doer | nmod |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Sir | through the wicket | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through wicket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | ware | of Gariët Sir | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bethink | past | Sir not said here | Sir | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | belong | past | Sir | to King Arthur's court | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Sir not said here | of great honour; worthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not know | past · passive | Sir | throughout the land | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | is | past | as Sir's brother; Sir nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | is a | past | Sir | a strong knight and bold and a doer of valiant deeds | bold conj; a doer of valiant deeds conj | 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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