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title: Then Sir Gawain began to search his wounds, for in those days, so fa… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Sir Gawain began to search his wounds, for in those days, so far as God suffered the sun to shine might no man find one so skilled in leech-craft, for that man whom he took in his care, were the life but left in him, would neither lack healing nor die of any wound. Who acts: Sir, God, sun, man.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 1

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Then Sir Gawain began to search his wounds, for in those days, so far as God suffered the sun to shine might no man find one so skilled in leech-craft, for that man whom he took in his care, were the life but left in him, would neither lack healing nor die of any wound.

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**Who acts:** Sir, God, sun, man · **What happens:** begin, search, suffer, shine, find, take · **To what, where:** wounds, one, man, care, life, healing

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, God, sun, man), 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:pg8447:2:1
# text = Then Sir Gawain began to search his wounds, for in those days, so far as God suffered the sun to shine might no man find one so skilled in leech-craft, for that man whom he took in his care, were the life but left in him, would neither lack healing nor die of any wound.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obj	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	skilled	skilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	leech	leech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
39	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	obj	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	lack	lack	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
57	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
58	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	59	cc	_	_
59	die	die	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	62	det	_	_
62	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Sir |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **search** | to-infinitive | Sir *not said here* | Sir's wounds |  |  | day |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wound=Location |
| 3 | **suffer** | past | God |  |  |  |  | for that man; far *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **shine** | to-infinitive | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | might | the sun | one |  |  |  | no man *nsubj*; skilled *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 6 | **take** | past | sun | that man |  | man's care |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Value in care=Location |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | the life |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **leave** | past | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in man | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in he=Result |
| 9 | **lack** | would |  | healing nor die of any wound |  |  |  | neither *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **wound** |  | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 11 | **care** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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