Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 53
None might withstand him, and he that wrought the most valiantly he abode there dead, or went hence so sorely wounded that he might never more find healing.
Who acts: None, Gawain · What happens: withstand, wrought, abide, go, wound, healing · To what, where: Gawain
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 (None, Gawain), 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 withstand | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 withstand | aux |
| 3 | withstand | withstand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 withstand | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wrought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wrought | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wrought | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 wrought | nsubj |
| 9 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 withstand | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 abode | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 valiantly | advmod |
| 12 | valiantly | valiantly | ADV | _ | 14 abode | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 abode | nsubj |
| 14 | abode | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wrought | conj |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 abode | advmod |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 abode | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wrought | conj |
| 20 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 wounded | advmod |
| 22 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 23 wounded | advmod |
| 23 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 healing | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 healing | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 healing | aux |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 more | advmod |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 healing | amod |
| 29 | find | find | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 healing | compound |
| 30 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wounded | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 withstand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withstand | might | None | Gawain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wrought | past | Gawain | that nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | abide | past | Gawain | there | dead, valiantly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go | past | Gawain not said here | hence property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wound | past | Gawain not said here | sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | healing | might | Gawain | never | tree rules |
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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