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description: And Sir Gawain said, "I have never a limb but feeleth the smart of wounds, yet am I whole of heart, and shall heal myself right well. Who acts: Sir. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8, with its dependenc
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 53

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And Sir Gawain said, "I have never a limb but feeleth the smart of wounds, yet am I whole of heart, and shall heal myself right well.

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**Who acts:** Sir · **What happens:** say, have, feel, be, heal · **To what, where:** limb, smart, Sir · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir), 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:pg8447:8:53
# text = And Sir Gawain said, "I have never a limb but feeleth the smart of wounds, yet am I whole of heart, and shall heal myself right well.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	feeleth	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	_
30	right	right	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Sir | a limb |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=Patient |
| 3 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | Sir *not said here* | the smart of wounds |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smart=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Sir |  |  |  |  | of heart; whole *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **heal** *in a quote* | shall | Sir *not said here* | Sir |  |  |  | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent myself=Patient |

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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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