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title: Thereto helped his great strength, that he fought so fiercely agains… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereto helped his great strength, that he fought so fiercely against them who withstood him, and smote such ghastly wounds that nevermore might they be healed, nor salved by the hand of any leech. Who acts: beset. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæv
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 50

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Thereto helped his great strength, that he fought so fiercely against them who withstood him, and smote such ghastly wounds that nevermore might they be healed, nor salved by the hand of any leech.

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**Who acts:** beset · **What happens:** help, fight, withstand, smite, heal, salve · **To what, where:** great strength, beset, such ghastly wounds

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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: who acts (beset), 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:pg8447:7:50
# text = Thereto helped his great strength, that he fought so fiercely against them who withstood him, and smote such ghastly wounds that nevermore might they be healed, nor salved by the hand of any leech.
1	Thereto	thereto	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	withstood	withstand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	ghastly	ghastly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
24	nevermore	nevermore	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	31	cc	_	_
31	salved	salve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	leech	leech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past |  | beset's great strength |  |  |  | thereto *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **fight** | past | beset |  |  |  |  | against dint; fiercely *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **withstand** | past |  | beset |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **smite** | past |  | such ghastly wounds |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wound=Experiencer |
| 5 | **heal** | might · passive |  | such ghastly wounds |  |  |  | dint *nsubj*; nevermore *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **salve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the hand of any leech | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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