Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 35
Also, I tell ye, he himself kept the keys of the strong tower wherein he had locked his guest.
Who acts: I, host · What happens: tell, keep, lock · To what, where: ye, keys, host · 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 (I, 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 4 tell | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Also | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 7 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 keys | det |
| 11 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kept | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tower | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tower | det |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tower | amod |
| 15 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keys | nmod |
| 16 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 locked | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 locked | aux |
| 19 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tower | acl:relcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 guest | nmod:poss |
| 21 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 locked | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | I | ye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | host | the keys of the strong tower | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lock | past · perfect · passive | host | host's guest obj; wherein property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient guest=Result |
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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