Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 25
The lord of the castle led him through the doorway, and his men locked it as they went forth.
Who acts: lord, men, man · What happens: lead, lock, go · To what, where: folk, doorway
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord, men, man), 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 lord | det |
| 2 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lord | nmod |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 led | obj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 doorway | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 doorway | det |
| 10 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 locked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 locked | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 men | nmod:poss |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 locked | nsubj |
| 15 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 led | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 locked | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 went | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 locked | advcl |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the lord of the castle | folk | the doorway | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme through doorway=Destination | |||
| 2 | lock | past | folk's men | doorway | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | man | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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