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description: When they beheld each other they gave fair and courteous greeting, the one to the other, and Sir Gariët spake. " Who acts: they. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 1

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When they beheld each other they gave fair and courteous greeting, the one to the other, and Sir Gariët spake. "

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**Who acts:** they · **What happens:** behold, give · **To what, where:** other, fair greeting

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they), 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:pg8447:10:1
# text = When they beheld each other they gave fair and courteous greeting, the one to the other, and Sir Gariët spake. "
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	Gariët	Gariët	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | past | they | each other |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | past | they | fair greeting |  |  |  | Gariët spake *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Recipient speak=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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