Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 83
The host, who would do his guest all honour, took the knight by the hand, and led him through three portals into a fair hall where he was received with courteous words.
Who acts: host · What happens: do, take, lead, receive · To what, where: guest, knight, three portals, host
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 (host), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 host | det |
| 2 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 host | acl:relcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 guest | nmod:poss |
| 8 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 honour | det |
| 10 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 host | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 knight | det |
| 14 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hand | det |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 led | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 led | cc |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 led | obj |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 portals | case |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 portals | nummod |
| 24 | portals | portal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 led | obl |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 hall | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hall | det |
| 27 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hall | amod |
| 28 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | obl |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 received | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 received | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 received | aux:pass |
| 32 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 hall | acl:relcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 words | case |
| 34 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 words | amod |
| 35 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 received | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | would | the host | host's guest | all honour obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | the host | the knight | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument knight=Destination | |||
| 3 | lead | past | the host not said here | knight | three portals | into a fair hall | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme through portal=Destination | ||
| 4 | receive | past · passive | host | with courteous words | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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