--- title: That even was there naught but gladness; each made great joy of the… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: That even was there naught but gladness; each made great joy of the other, and erst as the knights were weary did they get them to sleep, as men are wont to do, till the day brake, and the sun shone forth. Who acts: That, each, knights, Twas. 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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 (That, each, knights, Twas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:10:30 # text = That even was there naught but gladness; each made great joy of the other, and erst as the knights were weary did they get them to sleep, as men are wont to do, till the day brake, and the sun shone forth. 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 2 even even ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 5 naught naught PRON NN PronType=Neg 0 root _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 gladness gladness NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 nsubj _ _ 10 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 erst erst ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 advcl _ _ 24 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 parataxis _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 wont wont ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 till till ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 brake brake NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 47 forth forth ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | That | naught | | there | | gladness *conj* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | past | each | great joy of the other | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joy=Product | | 3 | **is** | past | the knights | | | | | weary *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | past · do-support | Twas *= twa* | food | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | food *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | men | | | | | wont *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | men *not said here* | | | | till the day brake | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **shine** | past | the sun | | | | | forth *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/10/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/10/31/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/10/)