Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 63
But few of them were whole, for Sir Gawain had so wounded them that men may well tell the tale from now even unto Doomsday!
Who acts: few, Sir, men · What happens: be, have, tell · To what, where: blows, tale · 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 (few, Sir, men), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 whole | cc |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 whole | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 few | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 whole | cop |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 10 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sir | flat |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 whole | parataxis |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 wounded | advmod |
| 13 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 had | xcomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 tell | mark |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 tell | aux |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 tell | advmod |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tale | det |
| 21 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 now | case |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 tell | obl |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 Doomsday | advmod |
| 25 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 26 Doomsday | case |
| 26 | Doomsday | Doomsday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 whole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | few of blows | whole property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Sir | blows = blow | wounded property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | may | men | the tale | unto Doomsday; well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
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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