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description: Any heart would have been the gladder who had seen and heard their gestures and their words, and in what love and friendship they betook themselves within, where they were right well received. Who acts: heart, uncle. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Medi
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 26

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Any heart would have been the gladder who had seen and heard their gestures and their words, and in what love and friendship they betook themselves within, where they were right well received.

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**Who acts:** heart, uncle · **What happens:** be, see, hear, betake, receive, gesture · **To what, where:** gestures, uncle, love

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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 (heart, uncle), 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:pg8447:10:26
# text = Any heart would have been the gladder who had seen and heard their gestures and their words, and in what love and friendship they betook themselves within, where they were right well received.
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gladder	glad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	gestures	gesture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	betook	betake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	within	within	ADP	IN	_	35	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
33	right	right	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
35	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | any heart |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hear** | past |  | uncle's gestures and uncle's words |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer gesture=Stimulus |
| 4 | **betake** | past | uncle | uncle |  | what love and friendship |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **receive** | past · passive |  | uncle |  |  |  | well *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **gesture** |  | uncle |  |  |  |  |  | nom gesture «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **word** |  | uncle |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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