Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 38

He must even abide his fate; he had come thither as guest, and now was he locked in a strong tower, within many doors, and in a strange place withal.

Who acts: Sir · What happens: abide, come, lock, fate · To what, where: fate, Sir, strong tower

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 (Sir), 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	4 abide	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 abide	aux
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 abide	advmod
4	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fate	nmod:poss
6	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 abide	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 come	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 abide	advcl
11	thither	thither	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 guest	case
13	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 locked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 locked	cc
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 locked	advmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 locked	aux:pass
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 locked	nsubj
19	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 abide	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 tower	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tower	det
22	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tower	amod
23	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 locked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 doors	punct
25	within	within	ADP	_	27 doors	case
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 doors	amod
27	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 locked	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 place	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 place	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 place	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 place	det
32	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 place	amod
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 locked	obl
34	withal	withal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 place	amod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 abide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	abide	must	Sir	Sir's fate				tree rules
2	come	past · perfect	Sir				as guest; thither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lock	past · passive		Sir	a strong tower	now	within many doors; in a strange place	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	fate		Sir					nom fate «event 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 38

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 38