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title: None might withstand him, and he that wrought the most valiantly he… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: None might withstand him, and he that wrought the most valiantly he abode there dead, or went hence so sorely wounded that he might never more find healing. Who acts: None, Gawain. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Ope
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 53

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None might withstand him, and he that wrought the most valiantly he abode there dead, or went hence so sorely wounded that he might never more find healing.

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**Who acts:** None, Gawain · **What happens:** withstand, wrought, abide, go, wound, healing · **To what, where:** Gawain

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (None, Gawain), 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:pg8447:5:53
# text = None might withstand him, and he that wrought the most valiantly he abode there dead, or went hence so sorely wounded that he might never more find healing.
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	withstand	withstand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	valiantly	valiantly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	abode	abide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
29	find	find	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **withstand** | might | None | Gawain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wrought** | past | Gawain |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **abide** | past | Gawain |  |  | there |  | dead, valiantly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | Gawain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hence *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wound** | past | Gawain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **healing** | might | Gawain |  |  |  | never |  | tree rules |

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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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