Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 72
When all had sworn the oath, and given surety, then did they shut fast the portals upon all their food and all the aid they might win against the king and his army who were nigh at hand.
Who acts: matters, army · What happens: swear, give, do, win, be · To what, where: all, portals, aid, hand
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 (matters, army), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 sworn | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 sworn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sworn | aux |
| 4 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 oath | det |
| 6 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sworn | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 surety | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 surety | cc |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 surety | amod |
| 10 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sworn | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 did | advmod |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sworn | conj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shut | nsubj |
| 15 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 did | xcomp |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 portals | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 portals | det |
| 18 | portals | portal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 did | obl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 food | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 food | det:predet |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 food | nmod:poss |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 portals | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 aid | cc |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 aid | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 aid | det |
| 26 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 food | conj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 win | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 win | aux |
| 29 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 aid | acl:relcl |
| 30 | against | against | ADP | _ | 32 king | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 king | det |
| 32 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 win | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 army | cc |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 army | nmod:poss |
| 35 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 king | conj |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 nigh | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 nigh | cop |
| 38 | nigh | nigh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 army | acl:relcl |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 hand | case |
| 40 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 nigh | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sworn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past · perfect · passive | all | given surety obl; the oath obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme oath=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | do | past | the portals upon matters's food and all aid | then | shut property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | win | might | matters = matter | all aid not said here | against the king and King's army | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | is | past | King's army | hand | nigh property | tree rules |
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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