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title: Twas bliss and fair speech there betwixt those knights, and in their… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Twas bliss and fair speech there betwixt those knights, and in their honour did they bring forth such food and drink as was there within, and did all they might for their comfort. Who acts: Twas. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 29

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Twas bliss and fair speech there betwixt those knights, and in their honour did they bring forth such food and drink as was there within, and did all they might for their comfort.

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**Who acts:** Twas · **What happens:** bliss, bring, be, do, honour, comfort · **To what, where:** such food, honour

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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 (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:pg8447:10:29
# text = Twas bliss and fair speech there betwixt those knights, and in their honour did they bring forth such food and drink as was there within, and did all they might for their comfort.
1	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bliss	bliss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	betwixt	betwixt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	parataxis	_	_
26	within	within	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bliss** | present | Twas |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past · do-support | Twas *= twa* | such food and drink |  | Twas's honour |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for Twas's comfort | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **honour** |  | Twas *= twa* |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **comfort** |  | Twas *= twa* |  |  |  |  |  | nom comfort «state 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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