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title: He made no sign to his folk, but locked the door of the tower so fas… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 34

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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.

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**Who acts:** host, none · **What happens:** make, lock, come, do, harm, overpower · **To what, where:** sign, door, Sir, host

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8447:6:34
# text = 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.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	locked	lock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
22	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	32	cc	_	_
32	overpower	overpower	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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