Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 33
Then said Sir Gawain he would fare in quest of Sir Lancelot who departed with him from court when he left King Arthur, since he might not well, for his honour, return without him.
Who acts: Gawain, quest, Lancelot · What happens: say, fare, depart, leave, return, quest · To what, where: quest, court, King Arthur · 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 (Gawain, quest, Lancelot), 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 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fare | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fare | aux |
| 7 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 quest | case |
| 9 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fare | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Lancelot | case |
| 11 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lancelot | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 quest | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 departed | nsubj |
| 14 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 quest | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 departed | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 court | case |
| 18 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 departed | obl |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 left | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 left | nsubj |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fare | advcl |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Arthur | compound |
| 23 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 well | punct |
| 25 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 29 well | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 well | nsubj |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 well | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 well | advmod |
| 29 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 fare | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 honour | punct |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 honour | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 honour | nmod:poss |
| 33 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fare | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 return | punct |
| 35 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 fare | parataxis |
| 36 | without | without | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 return | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Gawain Sir | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fare | would | Gawain | quest of Lancelot Sir | Gawain's honour parataxis; well property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | depart | past | quest of Lancelot Sir | court | with Gawain | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from court=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | leave | past | Gawain | King Arthur | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arthur=Theme | ||||
| 5 | return | infinitive | without Gawain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | quest | Lancelot Sir | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | honour | Gawain | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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