Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 46
They commended Sir Gawain to the care of God and all His saints, and so did he them.
Who acts: fellowship, God · What happens: commend, do, care · To what, where: Gawain, fellowship
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 (fellowship, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 commended | nsubj |
| 2 | commended | commend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 commended | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 care | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 care | det |
| 7 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 commended | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 God | case |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 care | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saints | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 saints | det:predet |
| 12 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 saints | nmod:poss |
| 13 | saints | saint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 God | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 did | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 did | advmod |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 commended | conj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 them | nsubj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 did | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 commended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commend | past | fellowship | Gawain Sir | to the care of God and Sir's saints | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gawain=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past | fellowship not said here | fellowship | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | care | God and Sir's saints | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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