Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 66

Sir Gawain, who forgat not the wounded knight and his need of healing, went to him as he lay, and bound up his wounds, and so tended him at that time that he was healed ere long--needs must he be healed, even against his will, on whom Sir Gawain laid hands.

Who acts: Gawain, Sir · What happens: forgat, go, lie, bind up, tend, heal · To what, where: wounded knight, Sir, wounds, hands, 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 (Gawain, 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	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Gawain	nmod:desc
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 went	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 forgat	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 forgat	nsubj
5	forgat	forgat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Gawain	appos
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 knight	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 knight	det
8	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knight	amod
9	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgat	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 need	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 need	nmod:poss
12	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knight	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 healing	case
14	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 need	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Gawain	punct
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 lay	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bound	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bound	cc
24	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 lay	ccomp
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 bound	compound:prt
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wounds	nmod:poss
27	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bound	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tended	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tended	cc
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 tended	advmod
31	tended	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tended	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 time	case
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 time	det
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tended	obl
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 healed	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 healed	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 healed	aux:pass
39	healed	heal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 tended	advcl
40	ere	ere	ADV	_	41 long	advmod
41	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 healed	advmod
42	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 needs	punct
43	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 went	parataxis
44	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 healed	aux
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 healed	nsubj
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 healed	aux:pass
47	healed	heal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 needs	xcomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 will	punct
49	even	even	ADV	_	52 will	advmod
50	against	against	ADP	_	52 will	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 will	nmod:poss
52	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 needs	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 whom	punct
54	on	on	ADP	_	55 whom	case
55	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 needs	parataxis
56	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 laid	nsubj
57	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Sir	flat
58	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 whom	acl:relcl
59	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 laid	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	forgat		Gawain Sir	the wounded knight and Sir's need of healing				tree rules
2	go	past	Gawain Sir		Sir			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	lie	past	Sir					tree rules
4	bind up	participle	Sir not said here	Sir's wounds				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient
5	tend	past	Gawain Sir not said here	Sir		time		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	heal	past · passive		Sir			long property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
7	need	present					whom parataxis	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	heal not said to happen	must · passive		Sir				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
9	lay	past	Sir	hands				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result
10	need		Sir	healing				nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
11	wound		Sir					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 2, sentence 66