Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 80
And honour all women, and keep them from shame, first and last, as best ye may.
Who acts: you · What happens: honour, keep · To what, where: women, shame
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 2 honour | cc |
| 2 | honour | honour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 women | det |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 honour | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 keep | cc |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 honour | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 keep | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 shame | case |
| 10 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 first | punct |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 honour | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 last | cc |
| 14 | last | last | ADV | _ | 12 first | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 best | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 best | case |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 honour | parataxis |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 may | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 best | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 honour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honour | imperative | you not said here | all women | first property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | women = woman | shame | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary from shame=Eventuality |
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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