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title: Their limbs were bandaged, some the arm, some the leg, some the head… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Their limbs were bandaged, some the arm, some the leg, some the head, and stained with blood. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 42

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Their limbs were bandaged, some the arm, some the leg, some the head, and stained with blood.

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**What happens:** bandage, stain · **To what, where:** limbs

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8447:7:42
# text = Their limbs were bandaged, some the arm, some the leg, some the head, and stained with blood.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	bandaged	bandage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bandage** | past · passive |  | Others's limbs |  |  |  | some arm and some leg *obl* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **stain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with blood | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blood=Theme |

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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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