Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 34
He wist not how it had gone with him; and would fain learn how his venture had fallen out and return in short space, would God prosper him, and bring Sir Lancelot with him to the aid of the queen.
Who acts: Gawain, quest, venture, God · What happens: not wist, go, fain, learn, fall out, return · To what, where: short space, Gawain, Lancelot, aid
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, venture, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wist | nsubj |
| 2 | wist | wist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 wist | advmod |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 gone | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | aux |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 wist | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gone | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 fain | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fain | cc |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fain | aux |
| 13 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wist | conj |
| 14 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fain | xcomp |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 fallen | advmod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 venture | nmod:poss |
| 17 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fallen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fallen | aux |
| 19 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 learn | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 fallen | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 return | cc |
| 22 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fallen | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 space | case |
| 24 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 space | amod |
| 25 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 return | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 prosper | punct |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 prosper | aux |
| 28 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 prosper | nsubj |
| 29 | prosper | prosper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 space | acl:relcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 prosper | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bring | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bring | cc |
| 33 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fain | conj |
| 34 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Lancelot | nmod:desc |
| 35 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 bring | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 bring | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 aid | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 aid | det |
| 40 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bring | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 queen | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 queen | det |
| 43 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 aid | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wist | present | Gawain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | quest | with Gawain | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | fain | would | Gawain not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | learn | infinitive | Gawain not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fall out | past · perfect | Gawain's venture | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | return | present | Gawain's venture not said here | short space | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | prosper | would | God | Gawain | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | bring | infinitive | Gawain not said here | Lancelot Sir | the aid of the queen | with Gawain | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lancelot=Theme to aid=Destination | ||
| 9 | venture | Gawain | nom venture «act intransitive»: 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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