Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 53
And Sir Gawain said, "I have never a limb but feeleth the smart of wounds, yet am I whole of heart, and shall heal myself right well.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: say, have, feel, be, heal · To what, where: limb, smart, Sir · 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 8. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sir | flat |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 limb | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 limb | det |
| 11 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 feeleth | cc |
| 13 | feeleth | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 smart | det |
| 15 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feeleth | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wounds | case |
| 17 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 smart | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 whole | punct |
| 19 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 22 whole | cc |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 whole | cop |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 whole | nsubj |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 heart | case |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 whole | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 heal | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 heal | cc |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 heal | aux |
| 28 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 29 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 heal | obj |
| 30 | right | right | ADV | _ | 31 well | advmod |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 heal | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Sir | a limb | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | present | Sir not said here | the smart of wounds | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smart=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Sir | of heart; whole property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | heal in a quote | shall | Sir not said here | Sir | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent myself=Patient |
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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