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title: Thus they journeyed till they heard true tidings of their lady, the… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus they journeyed till they heard true tidings of their lady, the queen; how that she was beset on all sides by the King of Ireland. Who acts: matters, King. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11, with i
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 32

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Thus they journeyed till they heard true tidings of their lady, the queen; how that she was beset on all sides by the King of Ireland.

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**Who acts:** matters, King · **What happens:** journey, hear, beset · **To what, where:** true tidings, scarce, sides

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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 (matters, King), 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:pg8447:11:32
# text = Thus they journeyed till they heard true tidings of their lady, the queen; how that she was beset on all sides by the King of Ireland.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	beset	beset	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | past | matters *= matter* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | matters *= matter* | true tidings of matters's lady and the queen |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus |
| 3 | **beset** | past · passive | the King of Ireland | scarce |  | all sides |  |  | tree rules |

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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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