Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 70
Nor am I yet whole; for I was wounded wellnigh to death, and bruised and mishandled, so that I had no power left, and am yet scarce healed.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, bruise, mishandle, have, leave, heal · To what, where: power
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Nor | nor | INTJ | _ | 5 whole | discourse |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 whole | cop |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 whole | nsubj |
| 4 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 whole | advmod |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 wellnigh | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 wellnigh | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wellnigh | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wellnigh | cop |
| 10 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wellnigh | amod |
| 11 | wellnigh | wellnigh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 whole | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wellnigh | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bruised | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bruised | cc |
| 16 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 whole | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mishandled | cc |
| 18 | mishandled | mishandle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bruised | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 had | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mishandled | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 power | det |
| 25 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 power | acl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 scarce | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 scarce | cc |
| 29 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 scarce | cop |
| 30 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 31 scarce | advmod |
| 31 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 whole | conj |
| 32 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 scarce | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 whole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | yet | whole property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | I | to death; wellnigh property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bruise | past | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | mishandle | past | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | have | past | I | no power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 6 | leave | participle | no power not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | present | I not said here | yet | scarce property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | heal | participle | I not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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