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title: Now in that land there dwelt a maiden who had caused it to be made k… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now in that land there dwelt a maiden who had caused it to be made known far and wide that whosoever might slay that beast him would she take for her husband. Who acts: maiden, whosoever, Sir. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 91

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Now in that land there dwelt a maiden who had caused it to be made known far and wide that whosoever might slay that beast him would she take for her husband.

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**Who acts:** maiden, whosoever, Sir · **What happens:** dwell, cause, make, know, slay, take · **To what, where:** maiden, land, beast

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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 (maiden, whosoever, Sir), 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:pg8447:10:91
# text = Now in that land there dwelt a maiden who had caused it to be made known far and wide that whosoever might slay that beast him would she take for her husband.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past |  | a maiden |  | that land; there | now |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme maiden=Location |
| 2 | **cause** | past · perfect | a maiden | maiden |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | a maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | participle | a maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **slay** | might | whosoever | that beast |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient |
| 6 | **take** | would | Sir | that beast *not said here* |  |  |  | for sware's husband; sware *nsubj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent beast=Theme for husband=Beneficiary |

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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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