Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 48
I may not tell ye how oft and how warmly Sir Gawain thanked Morien, that he had saved his life that day on the field, where he had of a surety been slain had not God and that good knight come to his aid.
Who acts: I, Sir, good knight · What happens: not tell, thank, save, have, be, come · To what, where: ye, Morien, life, field, surety slain, aid · 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 (I, Sir, good knight), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 oft | advmod |
| 7 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thanked | cc |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 warmly | advmod |
| 10 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 13 thanked | advmod |
| 11 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 thanked | nsubj |
| 12 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sir | flat |
| 13 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 oft | conj |
| 14 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 thanked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saved | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 saved | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saved | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saved | aux |
| 19 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 tell | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saved | obj |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saved | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 field | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 field | det |
| 26 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saved | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 had | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 field | acl:relcl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 God | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 slain | det |
| 33 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 slain | compound |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 slain | cop |
| 35 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 God | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 God | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 God | advmod |
| 38 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 come | cc |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 come | mark |
| 41 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 knight | amod |
| 42 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 come | nsubj |
| 43 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 God | conj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 aid | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 aid | nmod:poss |
| 46 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 come | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | may | I | ye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | Sir | Morien | warmly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morien=Theme | |||
| 3 | save | past · perfect | Sir | Sir's life | the field | day | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent life=Theme on field=Source | ||
| 4 | have | past | Sir | of God | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | participle | a surety slain | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | infinitive | good knight | Sir's aid | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location |
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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