Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 36
With this was Sir Gariët but ill-pleased; he said Sir Gawain would do better to return, and take the place of his uncle, and care for the land and comfort the folk.
Who acts: this, Sir · What happens: be, say, do, return, take, care · To what, where: better, place, folk · 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 (this, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 Gariët | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Gariët | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Gariët | cop |
| 4 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gariët | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 pleased | cc |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pleased | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ill | punct |
| 9 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Gariët | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 Gariët | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 do | nsubj |
| 14 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sir | flat |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 return | mark |
| 19 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 better | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 take | cc |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 uncle | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 27 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 care | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 care | cc |
| 30 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 take | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 land | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 land | det |
| 33 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 care | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 comfort | cc |
| 35 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 care | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 folk | det |
| 37 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 comfort | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | with Gariët; Sir nmod:desc | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | this not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Sir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | would | Sir | better | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | return | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | take | infinitive | the place of Sir's uncle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||||
| 7 | care | infinitive | for the land | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for land=Theme | |||||
| 8 | comfort | infinitive | the folk | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus folk=Experiencer |
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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