Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 50
Thereto helped his great strength, that he fought so fiercely against them who withstood him, and smote such ghastly wounds that nevermore might they be healed, nor salved by the hand of any leech.
Who acts: beset · What happens: help, fight, withstand, smite, heal, salve · To what, where: great strength, beset, such ghastly wounds
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beset), 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 | Thereto | thereto | ADV | _ | 2 helped | advmod |
| 2 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 strength | nmod:poss |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strength | amod |
| 5 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 helped | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fought | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 fought | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fought | nsubj |
| 9 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 helped | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 fiercely | advmod |
| 11 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 9 fought | advmod |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fought | obl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 withstood | nsubj |
| 15 | withstood | withstand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fought | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 withstood | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 smote | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 smote | cc |
| 19 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 helped | conj |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wounds | amod |
| 21 | ghastly | ghastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wounds | amod |
| 22 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 smote | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 healed | nsubj |
| 24 | nevermore | nevermore | ADV | _ | 28 healed | advmod |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 healed | aux |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 healed | nsubj |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 healed | aux:pass |
| 28 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 wounds | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 salved | punct |
| 30 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 31 salved | cc |
| 31 | salved | salve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 smote | conj |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 hand | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hand | det |
| 34 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 salved | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 leech | case |
| 36 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 leech | det |
| 37 | leech | leech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hand | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | beset's great strength | thereto property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | beset | against dint; fiercely property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | withstand | past | beset | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | smite | past | such ghastly wounds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wound=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | heal | might · passive | such ghastly wounds | dint nsubj; nevermore property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | salve | participle | by the hand of any leech | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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