Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 103

Then said they all who brought the dead man thither, that forsooth 'twas a stranger knight who did this by his great valour; "Though we saw it not with our eyes, yet may we well bear witness to the death of many of our folk; and others are so sorely wounded that they may never more be healed.

Who acts: God, that, stranger knight, we, others · What happens: say, bring, twa, do, not see, bear · To what, where: dead man, this, valour, witness, God · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, that, stranger knight, we), 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	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brought	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 brought	advmod
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 brought	nsubj
6	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obj
10	thither	thither	ADV	_	6 brought	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 twas	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 twas	nsubj
13	forsooth	forsooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 twas	amod
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 twas	punct
15	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 brought	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 knight	det
17	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knight	compound
18	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 twas	appos
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knight	acl:relcl
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 did	obj
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 valour	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 valour	nmod:poss
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 valour	amod
25	valour	valour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 did	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 saw	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 saw	punct
28	Though	though	SCONJ	_	30 saw	mark
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 saw	nsubj
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saw	obj
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 saw	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 eyes	case
34	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 eyes	nmod:poss
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 saw	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 bear	punct
37	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	41 bear	cc
38	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 bear	aux
39	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 bear	nsubj
40	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 bear	advmod
41	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
42	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bear	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 death	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 death	det
45	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bear	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 many	case
47	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 death	amod
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 folk	case
49	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 folk	nmod:poss
50	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 many	nmod
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 wounded	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 others	cc
53	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 wounded	nsubj
54	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 wounded	cop
55	so	so	ADV	_	57 wounded	advmod
56	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	57 wounded	advmod
57	wounded	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 healed	mark
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 healed	nsubj
60	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 healed	aux
61	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	64 healed	advmod
62	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	64 healed	nsubj:pass
63	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	64 healed	aux:pass
64	healed	heal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 wounded	advcl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring	past	God		the dead man		who nsubj; thither property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination
3	twa		that				a stranger knight appos	tree rules
4	do	past	a stranger knight	this			by heart's great valour	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
5	not see in a quote	past	we	valour			our eyes obj	tree rules
6	bear in a quote	may	we	witness			to the death; well property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient
7	is in a quote	present	others				sorely, wound property	tree rules
8	not heal in a quote	may · passive		God				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 103

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 103