Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 75
And they within answered that so long as life remained to them they would not give up the castle, or betray their rightful lord.
Who acts: knights · What happens: answer, remain, not give up, betray · To what, where: knights, life, castle, rightful lord · 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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 answered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | within | within | ADP | _ | 4 answered | mark |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 answered | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 give | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 long | obl |
| 10 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 life | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 remained | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 give | advmod |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 give | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 betray | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 betray | cc |
| 22 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 give | conj |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lord | nmod:poss |
| 24 | rightful | rightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lord | amod |
| 25 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 betray | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | participle · passive | knights = knight | that obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | participle | life not said here | knights = knight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not give up | would | knights = knight | the castle | long property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Source | |||
| 4 | betray | infinitive | knights = knight not said here | knights's rightful lord | 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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