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title: So good a leech might no man find since the day of Mother Eve as was… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: So good a leech might no man find since the day of Mother Eve as was Sir Gawain; whatever wound he tended, 'twas healed even as ye looked upon it! Who acts: good leech, wound, twas. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Op
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 22

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So good a leech might no man find since the day of Mother Eve as was Sir Gawain; whatever wound he tended, 'twas healed even as ye looked upon it!

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**Who acts:** good leech, wound, twas · **What happens:** find, be, tend, heal, look · **To what, where:** whatever, twas

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good leech, wound, twas), 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:pg8447:8:22
# text = So good a leech might no man find since the day of Mother Eve as was Sir Gawain; whatever wound he tended, 'twas healed even as ye looked upon it!
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	leech	leech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	since	since	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
21	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	tended	tend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
27	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
31	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | might | a good leech |  |  |  | day | no man *nsubj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as Sir | tree rules |
| 3 | **tend** | past | wound | whatever |  |  |  | Sir *nsubj* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme |
| 4 | **heal** | participle |  | twas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **look** | past | twas |  |  |  |  | upon leech; ye *nsubj* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=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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