Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 20
Quoth Sir Gawain his brother, as one wise in counsel, "Knight I will tell ye what ye shall do; from haste cometh seldom good that abideth to honour.
Who acts: I, ye · What happens: tell, do, come, abide, honour · To what, where: Knight, ye, haste, Quoth · 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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ye), 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Quoth | flat |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Quoth | flat |
| 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 | 1 Quoth | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wise | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 wise | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 wise | nummod |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 counsel | case |
| 11 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wise | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Knight | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Knight | punct |
| 14 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Quoth | appos |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Knight | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 do | obj |
| 20 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 do | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tell | ccomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 cometh | punct |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 haste | case |
| 25 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cometh | obl |
| 26 | cometh | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | conj |
| 27 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 28 good | advmod |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cometh | xcomp |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 abideth | mark |
| 30 | abideth | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 good | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 honour | mark |
| 32 | honour | honour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 abideth | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | I | Knight not said here | ye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | shall | ye | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | I not said here | haste | good property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from haste=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | abide in a quote | present | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | honour in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | 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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