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title: Thus did they ride until they had found the hermitage, and scarce ha… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus did they ride until they had found the hermitage, and scarce had they come thither when they were ware of Morien with Sir Gariët and Sir Perceval, who came thither as at that time. Who acts: twas, scarce, ware. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæ
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 25

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Thus did they ride until they had found the hermitage, and scarce had they come thither when they were ware of Morien with Sir Gariët and Sir Perceval, who came thither as at that time.

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**Who acts:** twas, scarce, ware · **What happens:** ride, find, have, come, be · **To what, where:** hermitage, ware

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twas, scarce, ware), 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:pg8447:11:25
# text = Thus did they ride until they had found the hermitage, and scarce had they come thither when they were ware of Morien with Sir Gariët and Sir Perceval, who came thither as at that time.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hermitage	hermitage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	scarce	scarce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
17	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	ware	ware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:desc	_	_
26	Gariët	Gariët	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
33	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past · do-support | twas *= twa* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past · perfect | twas *= twa* | the hermitage |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermitage=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | scarce |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | present | twas *= twa* |  |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | twas *= twa* | ware |  |  |  | of Morien; with Gariët  Sir and Sir | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | past | ware |  |  | thither | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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