Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 1

Then Sir Gawain began to search his wounds, for in those days, so far as God suffered the sun to shine might no man find one so skilled in leech-craft, for that man whom he took in his care, were the life but left in him, would neither lack healing nor die of any wound.

Who acts: Sir, God, sun, man · What happens: begin, search, suffer, shine, find, take · To what, where: wounds, one, man, care, life, healing

This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, God, sun, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Sir	flat
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 search	mark
6	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wounds	nmod:poss
8	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 search	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 days	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 days	case
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 days	case
12	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 days	det
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 search	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 suffered	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 far	advmod
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 suffered	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 suffered	mark
18	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 suffered	nsubj
19	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun	det
21	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 find	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 shine	mark
23	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sun	acl
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 find	aux
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 find	nsubj
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 suffered	ccomp
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 find	obj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 skilled	advmod
30	skilled	skilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 find	xcomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 craft	case
32	leech	leech	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 craft	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 leech	punct
34	craft	craft	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 skilled	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 man	punct
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 man	case
37	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 man	det
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 suffered	obl
39	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 took	obj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 took	nsubj
41	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 man	acl:relcl
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 care	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 care	nmod:poss
44	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 took	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 life	punct
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 life	cop
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 life	det
48	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obl
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 left	cc
50	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 left	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 lack	punct
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 lack	aux
55	neither	neither	ADV	_	56 lack	advmod
56	lack	lack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
57	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 lack	obj
58	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	59 die	cc
59	die	die	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 healing	conj
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 wound	case
61	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	62 wound	det
62	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 die	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Sir			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	search	to-infinitive	Sir not said here	Sir's wounds		day		vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wound=Location
3	suffer	past	God				for that man; far property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	shine	to-infinitive	the sun not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	might	the sun	one			no man nsubj; skilled property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
6	take	past	sun	that man	man's care			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Value in care=Location
7	is a	past		the life				tree rules
8	leave	past	Sir not said here				in man	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in he=Result
9	lack	would		healing nor die of any wound			neither property	tree rules
10	wound		Sir					nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent
11	care		man					nom care «act intransitive»: 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 2, sentence 1

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 1