Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 87
He had upon him no mortal wound, so good was his hauberk, otherwise had he lost his life from the blows he had received.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: have, be, lose, receive · To what, where: mortal wound, good hauberk, life, blows
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | obl |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 wound | det |
| 6 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wound | amod |
| 7 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hauberk | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 good | advmod |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hauberk | amod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hauberk | cop |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hauberk | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hauberk | hauberk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 15 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 16 had | advmod |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lost | nsubj |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | ccomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 blows | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 blows | det |
| 23 | blows | blows | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 received | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 received | aux |
| 26 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 blows | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Sir | no mortal wound | upon Gawain | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Sir not said here | Sir's good hauberk | Sir nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | past | otherwise property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lose | past | Sir | Sir's life | the blows | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent life=Theme from blows=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | receive | past · perfect | Sir | the blows not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blows=Theme |
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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