--- title: The knights lay longer abed than did the hermit, who had said and su… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: The knights lay longer abed than did the hermit, who had said and sung his orisons and his Mass ere day had dawned, or that the knights had arisen and done on their garments. Who acts: knights, hermit. 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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 (knights, hermit), 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:pg8447:10:31 # text = The knights lay longer abed than did the hermit, who had said and sung his orisons and his Mass ere day had dawned, or that the knights had arisen and done on their garments. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 5 abed abed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 than than SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 hermit hermit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 sung sing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 orisons orison NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 20 Mass Mass PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 ere ere NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 dawned dawn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 arisen arise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 garments garment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | present | the knights | | | | | abed *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **do** | past | the knights *not said here* | the hermit | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermit=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the hermit | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle | the hermit *not said here* | Knight's orisons | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location orison=Theme | | 5 | **dawn** | past · perfect · passive | | Knight's Mass ere day | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **arise** | past · perfect · passive | | the knights | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **do** | participle | | | | Twas's garments | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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