Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 23
So brought they their guests within the walls, and shut fast their gates, and hung out their shields, as men who might well defend themselves.
Who acts: Matters, men · What happens: bring, guest, hang out, defend · To what, where: shields, Matters
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matters, men), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 brought | advmod |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 guests | nsubj |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 guests | nmod:poss |
| 5 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | obj |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 walls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 walls | det |
| 8 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shut | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shut | cc |
| 11 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 brought | conj |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 shut | advmod |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 gates | nmod:poss |
| 14 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shut | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hung | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hung | cc |
| 17 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 hung | compound:prt |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shields | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hung | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 men | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 men | case |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hung | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 defend | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 defend | aux |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 defend | advmod |
| 27 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 men | acl:relcl |
| 28 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 defend | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | within the walls | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | guest | Matters = matter | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | hang out | past | Matters's shields | as men | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=Patient | ||||
| 4 | defend | might | men | Matters = matter | well property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary |
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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