Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 28
And Sir Gawain made ready his harness and his weapons, and scoured and polished them, and tested them where they were mishandled.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: make, scour, polish, test, mishandle · To what, where: ready harness, harness
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 made | cc |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sir | flat |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 harness | amod |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 harness | nmod:poss |
| 7 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 weapons | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 harness | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 scoured | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 scoured | cc |
| 13 | scoured | scour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 polished | cc |
| 15 | polished | polish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 scoured | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 polished | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tested | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tested | cc |
| 19 | tested | test | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tested | obj |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 mishandled | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 mishandled | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 mishandled | aux:pass |
| 24 | mishandled | mishandle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 tested | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Sir | Sir's ready harness and Sir's weapons | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harness=Product | ||||
| 2 | scour | past | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | polish | past | harness | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination | |||||
| 4 | test | past | Sir not said here | harness | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mishandle | past · passive | harness | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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