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title: But few of them were whole, for Sir Gawain had so wounded them that… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: But few of them were whole, for Sir Gawain had so wounded them that men may well tell the tale from now even unto Doomsday! Who acts: few, Sir, men. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, with its dependenc
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 63

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But few of them were whole, for Sir Gawain had so wounded them that men may well tell the tale from now even unto Doomsday!

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**Who acts:** few, Sir, men · **What happens:** be, have, tell · **To what, where:** blows, tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (few, Sir, men), 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:pg8447:5:63
# text = But few of them were whole, for Sir Gawain had so wounded them that men may well tell the tale from now even unto Doomsday!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Doomsday	Doomsday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | few of blows |  |  |  |  | whole *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Sir | blows *= blow* |  |  |  | wounded *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | may | men | the tale |  |  |  | unto Doomsday; well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |

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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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