Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 5
They who kept shield-watch without were ware of them, and led their company against them, but it harmed them naught.
Who acts: gates, company · What happens: keep, be, lead, harm · To what, where: shield watch, company, gates
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 (gates, company), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watch | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 shield | punct |
| 6 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obj |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 ware | case |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ware | cop |
| 9 | ware | ware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ware | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 led | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 led | cc |
| 14 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 company | nmod:poss |
| 16 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | obj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 led | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 harmed | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 harmed | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 harmed | nsubj |
| 22 | harmed | harm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 harmed | obj |
| 24 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 22 harmed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | gates = gate | shield watch | who nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | without ware; of gates = gate | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lead | past | gates = gate not said here | gates's company | against gates = gate | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent company=Theme against they=Destination | |||
| 4 | harm | past | company | gates = gate | naught obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer naught=Result |
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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