Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 34
He made no sign to his folk, but locked the door of the tower so fast that none might come therein to Sir Gawain to do him harm, nor overpower him, so safely was he in his keeping.
Who acts: host, none · What happens: make, lock, come, do, harm, overpower · To what, where: sign, door, Sir, host
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 (host, none), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sign | det |
| 4 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 folk | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 folk | nmod:poss |
| 7 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 locked | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 locked | cc |
| 10 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 locked | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tower | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tower | det |
| 15 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 door | nmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 fast | advmod |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 locked | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 19 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 locked | advcl |
| 22 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Sir | case |
| 24 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obl |
| 25 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Sir | flat |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 come | advcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 do | obj |
| 29 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 do | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 overpower | punct |
| 31 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 32 overpower | cc |
| 32 | overpower | overpower | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 overpower | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 keeping | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 safely | advmod |
| 36 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 41 keeping | advmod |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 keeping | aux |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 keeping | nsubj |
| 39 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 41 keeping | mark |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 keeping | nsubj |
| 41 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 made | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | host | no sign | to host's folk | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product | |||
| 2 | lock | past | host not said here | the door of the tower | fast property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 3 | come | might | none | Sir | therein property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sir=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | none not said here | host | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | harm | infinitive | none not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | overpower | infinitive | host | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | keep | past · progressive | host | safely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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