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title: In sooth he was in evil case, for he had more than ten wounds, and f… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: In sooth he was in evil case, for he had more than ten wounds, and from the least of them a man might scarce recover; he came in such guise that his weapons and his vesture and his steed, which was fair and tall, were all dyed red with his own blood. Who acts: Knight, man, steed. A sentence of «Mori
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 82

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In sooth he was in evil case, for he had more than ten wounds, and from the least of them a man might scarce recover; he came in such guise that his weapons and his vesture and his steed, which was fair and tall, were all dyed red with his own blood.

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**Who acts:** Knight, man, steed · **What happens:** be, have, scarce, come, dye · **To what, where:** evil case, ten wounds, recover, least, such guise, weapons

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This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knight, man, steed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8447:1:83
# text = In sooth he was in evil case, for he had more than ten wounds, and from the least of them a man might scarce recover; he came in such guise that his weapons and his vesture and his steed, which was fair and tall, were all dyed red with his own blood.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	sooth	sooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	14	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	scarce	scarce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
27	recover	recover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	guise	guise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	obj	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	vesture	vesture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	acl:relcl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux:pass	_	_
51	all	all	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	dyed	dye	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
53	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	xcomp	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
56	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Knight |  |  | evil case |  | in sooth | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Knight | ten wounds |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |
| 3 | **scarce** | might | a man | recover |  | the least of wounds |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | Knight |  |  | such guise |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in guise=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | Knight's steed |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | Knight's steed *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **dye** | past · passive |  | Knight's weapons and Knight's vesture and Knight's steed |  |  |  | such guise *obj*; all, red *property* | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient that=Result |

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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.

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**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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