Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 50
The adventure doeth us to wit that when Sir Morien and Sir Gariët had parted from Sir Gawain, they rode once more to the crossways, for they had made a compact that they should not part before that they had found his father, Sir Agloval.
Who acts: adventure, adventures · What happens: do, wit, part, ride, make, not part · To what, where: us, Sir, crossways, compact, father
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 (adventure, adventures), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 adventure | det |
| 2 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 doeth | nsubj |
| 3 | doeth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 doeth | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wit | mark |
| 6 | wit | wit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 doeth | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 parted | mark |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 parted | advmod |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 parted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | Morien | Morien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sir | flat |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Sir | cc |
| 12 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sir | conj |
| 13 | Gariët | Gariët | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Sir | flat |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 parted | aux |
| 15 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wit | advcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Sir | case |
| 17 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 parted | obl |
| 18 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Sir | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rode | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rode | nsubj |
| 21 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 doeth | parataxis |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 more | advmod |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 rode | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 crossways | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 crossways | det |
| 26 | crossways | crossway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rode | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 made | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | aux |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 rode | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 compact | det |
| 33 | compact | compact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 part | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 part | nsubj |
| 36 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 part | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 part | advmod |
| 38 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 compact | acl:relcl |
| 39 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 43 found | mark |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 found | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 found | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 found | aux |
| 43 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 made | advcl |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 father | nmod:poss |
| 45 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 found | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Sir | punct |
| 47 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 father | appos |
| 48 | Agloval | Agloval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Sir | flat |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 doeth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the adventure | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wit | to-infinitive | the adventure not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | part | past · perfect · passive | Sir and Sir | from Sir | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from sir=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | ride | past | adventures = adventure | the crossways | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to crossway=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | make | past · perfect | adventures = adventure | a compact | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset compact=Product | ||||
| 6 | not part | should | adventures = adventure | a compact not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | find | past · perfect | adventures = adventure | Sir's father | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic |
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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