Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 22

So good a leech might no man find since the day of Mother Eve as was Sir Gawain; whatever wound he tended, 'twas healed even as ye looked upon it!

Who acts: good leech, wound, twas · What happens: find, be, tend, heal, look · To what, where: whatever, twas

This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good leech, wound, twas), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 good	advmod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leech	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 leech	det
4	leech	leech	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	nsubj
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	since	since	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Mother	case
13	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 day	nmod
14	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Mother	flat
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 Sir	case
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Sir	cop
17	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 find	obl
18	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Sir	flat
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 tended	punct
20	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 tended	obj
21	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tended	nsubj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tended	nsubj
23	tended	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 find	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 twas	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 twas	punct
26	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 looked	nsubj
27	healed	heal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 twas	acl
28	even	even	ADV	_	31 looked	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 looked	mark
30	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 looked	nsubj
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tended	conj
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 looked	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	might	a good leech		day	no man nsubj	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past				as Sir	tree rules
3	tend	past	wound	whatever		Sir nsubj	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme
4	heal	participle		twas not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	look	past	twas			upon leech; ye nsubj	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 22

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 22