Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 74
Then the king demanded of those who were within if they would yield up the burg, and thus save their lives.
Who acts: king · What happens: demand, be, save · To what, where: lives
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 (king), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 demanded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 demanded | nsubj |
| 4 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 those | case |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 demanded | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 yield | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 yield | cop |
| 9 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 yield | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 yield | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 yield | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 yield | aux |
| 13 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 those | acl:relcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 yield | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 burg | det |
| 16 | burg | burg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 yield | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 save | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 save | cc |
| 19 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 20 save | advmod |
| 20 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 demanded | advcl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lives | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 save | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | the king | then | of those | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | would · past | who nsubj; knights = knight nsubj; the burg obj; yield property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | the king not said here | knights's lives | thus property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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