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title: Thus they abode that day with the hermit, and were better served, in… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus they abode that day with the hermit, and were better served, in all that men might prepare for them, than I may well tell ye; and Morien prayed his father straitly that he would delay not, but would tell him what was in his thought and in his intent. Who acts: things, men, I, Morien. A sentence
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 38

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Thus they abode that day with the hermit, and were better served, in all that men might prepare for them, than I may well tell ye; and Morien prayed his father straitly that he would delay not, but would tell him what was in his thought and in his intent.

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**Who acts:** things, men, I, Morien, hermit · **What happens:** abide, be, prepare, tell, pray, not delay · **To what, where:** ye, father, hermit, thought · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (things, men, I, Morien), 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:pg8447:10:38
# text = Thus they abode that day with the hermit, and were better served, in all that men might prepare for them, than I may well tell ye; and Morien prayed his father straitly that he would delay not, but would tell him what was in his thought and in his intent.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	abode	abide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
13	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
29	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	straitly	straitly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	delay	delay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	iobj	_	_
47	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	51	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	ccomp	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	intent	intent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abide** | past | things *= thing* |  |  |  | day | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | things *= thing* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **prepare** | might | all men |  |  |  |  | for things *= thing* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | may | I |  | ye |  |  | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
| 5 | **pray** | past | Morien | hermit's father |  |  |  | straitly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **delay** | would | hermit |  |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would | things *= thing* *not said here* |  | hermit |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 8 | **is** | past |  |  |  | hermit's thought and hermit's intent |  | what *nsubj*; hermit *nmod:poss*; hermit's intent *conj* | tree rules |
| 9 | **intend** |  | hermit |  |  |  |  |  | nom intent «cognition 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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