Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 76
My lodging is ever free, and ne'er refused to any knight who would fain be my guest.
Who acts: lodging, ne'er, knight · What happens: be, refuse, fain · To what, where: guest
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lodging, ne'er, knight), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 free | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 free | cop |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 free | advmod |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 refused | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 refused | cc |
| 8 | ne'er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 refused | nsubj |
| 9 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 free | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 knight | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 knight | det |
| 12 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 refused | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fain | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fain | aux |
| 15 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knight | acl:relcl |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 guest | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 guest | nmod:poss |
| 18 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fain | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My lodging | ever | free property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | refuse | past | ne'er | to any knight | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fain | would | any knight | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | my guest | my nmod:poss | 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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