Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 83

The knight was sad at heart and sorely wounded, yet he greeted, as best he might, all the lords then in the hall; but more he might not speak, for the pain of his wounds.

Who acts: knight · What happens: be, greet, not speak, pain, wound · To what, where: heart, best, wounds · 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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knight	det
2	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	cop
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 heart	case
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sad	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wounded	cc
8	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	9 wounded	advmod
9	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sad	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 greeted	punct
11	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	13 greeted	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 greeted	nsubj
13	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 best	punct
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 best	case
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 greeted	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 might	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 best	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lords	punct
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 lords	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lords	det
22	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 greeted	obl
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 hall	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hall	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hall	det
26	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lords	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 speak	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 more	cc
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 speak	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 speak	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 speak	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 speak	advmod
33	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sad	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pain	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 pain	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 pain	det
37	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 speak	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 wounds	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 wounds	nmod:poss
40	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 pain	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the knight		heart	sad property	tree rules
2	be		the knight not said here			sorely property	tree rules
3	greet speech: greet	past	Knight	best		all lords in the hall obl	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme
4	not speak speech: other	might	Knight			the pain of Knight's wounds conj	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pain			Knight's wounds			nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient
6	wound		Knight				nom wound «state 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 1, sentence 83

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 83