Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 3

Then spake the host: "He is my guest, and he hath my safe conduct, good and fast, the while he is within; and be ye sure of this, that if any wrong him by word or deed, he shall rue it in such wise that it shall cost him goods and life.

Who acts: you, many, ye, conduct, my · What happens: speak, be, have, rue, cost, conduct · To what, where: host, guest, safe conduct, conduct, goods, many · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, many, ye, conduct), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 spake	advmod
2	spake	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 host	det
4	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spake	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 guest	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 guest	punct
7	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 guest	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 guest	cop
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 guest	nmod:poss
10	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spake	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hath	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hath	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hath	nsubj
14	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 spake	parataxis
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 conduct	nmod:poss
16	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 conduct	amod
17	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hath	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 conduct	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fast	cc
21	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 good	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 while	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 while	det
24	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hath	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 within	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 within	cop
27	within	within	ADP	_	24 while	acl:relcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 sure	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sure	cc
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 sure	cop
31	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 sure	nsubj
32	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spake	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 this	case
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 sure	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 wrong	punct
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 wrong	mark
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 wrong	mark
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 wrong	det
39	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spake	parataxis
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 wrong	obl
41	by	by	ADP	_	42 word	case
42	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wrong	obl
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 deed	cc
44	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 word	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 rue	punct
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 rue	nsubj
47	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 rue	aux
48	rue	rue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 spake	conj
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 rue	obj
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 wise	case
51	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 wise	amod
52	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 rue	parataxis
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 cost	mark
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 cost	nsubj
55	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 cost	aux
56	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 wise	csubj
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 cost	iobj
58	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	56 cost	obj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 life	cc
60	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 goods	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the host		then		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	many	my guest			my nmod:poss	tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	many	my safe conduct		while		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Patient
4	is in a quote	infinitive	ye				of this; sure property	tree rules
5	rue in a quote	shall	many	conduct				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	cost in a quote	shall	conduct	goods and life	many			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary goods=Value
7	conduct in a quote		my					nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 3

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 3