Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 71
Each man there gave his surety to abide with them at that time, nor to surrender through fear of death, but to hearken to other counsel.
Who acts: man · What happens: give, abide, surrender, hearken, fear · To what, where: surety, fear, death
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 surety | nmod:poss |
| 6 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 abide | mark |
| 8 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 abide | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 abide | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 surrender | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 surrender | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 surrender | mark |
| 17 | surrender | surrender | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 abide | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 fear | case |
| 19 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 surrender | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fear | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hearken | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 hearken | cc |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 hearken | mark |
| 25 | hearken | hearken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 counsel | case |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 counsel | amod |
| 28 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hearken | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | each man | man's surety | there | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surety=Theme | |||
| 2 | abide | to-infinitive | each man not said here | time | with matters = matter | tree rules | |||
| 3 | surrender | to-infinitive | each man not said here | fear of death | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hearken | to-infinitive | each man not said here | to other counsel | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fear | death | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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