Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 43

Sir Gawain said he would return with Sir Lancelot as swiftly as he might, and put to shame the folk who had led his uncle captive; and he quoth, "Brother, tell this to my lady the queen, and bear her greeting in all good faith and loyalty. '

Who acts: Sir, folk, Lady · What happens: say, return, put, shame, lead, tell · To what, where: folk, uncle captive, this, lady, greeting, good faith · 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 (Sir, folk, Lady), 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	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sir	flat
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 return	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 return	aux
6	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 Lancelot	case
8	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Lancelot	nmod:desc
9	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 return	obl
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 swiftly	advmod
11	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	6 return	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 might	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 might	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 swiftly	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 put	cc
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 return	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 shame	mark
19	shame	shame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 put	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 folk	det
21	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shame	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 led	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 led	aux
24	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 folk	acl:relcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 captive	nmod:poss
26	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 captive	compound
27	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 led	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 tell	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 tell	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 tell	nsubj
31	quoth	quoth	ADV	_	36 tell	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 quoth	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 Brother	punct
34	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tell	nsubj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Brother	punct
36	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
37	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 tell	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 lady	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 lady	nmod:poss
40	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tell	obl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 queen	det
42	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lady	appos
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 bear	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 bear	cc
45	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 tell	conj
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 greeting	nmod:poss
47	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 bear	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	51 faith	case
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 faith	det
50	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 faith	amod
51	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 bear	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 loyalty	cc
53	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 faith	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 tell	punct
55	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sir					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	return	would	Sir				with Lancelot Sir; swiftly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put	infinitive	Sir not said here					tree rules
4	shame	to-infinitive	Sir not said here	the folk				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus folk=Experiencer
5	lead	past · perfect	the folk	Sir's uncle captive				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Sir	this	my lady		Brother nsubj; quoth property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to lady=Recipient
7	bear in a quote	infinitive	Sir not said here	Lady's greeting		all good faith and loyalty		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Patient
8	greet in a quote		Lady					nom greeting «communication 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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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 43