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title: This had the king sworn and on the morrow would he come thither; he… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: This had the king sworn and on the morrow would he come thither; he had laid waste the country and destroyed the churches, and made many widows and orphans; all the land was in terror for the harm thus wrought upon them. Who acts: This, King, land. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 41

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This had the king sworn and on the morrow would he come thither; he had laid waste the country and destroyed the churches, and made many widows and orphans; all the land was in terror for the harm thus wrought upon them.

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**Who acts:** This, King, land · **What happens:** have, swear, come, lay, destroy, make · **To what, where:** king, morrow, waste, churches, many widows, terror

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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 (This, King, land), 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:pg8447:11:41
# text = This had the king sworn and on the morrow would he come thither; he had laid waste the country and destroyed the churches, and made many widows and orphans; all the land was in terror for the harm thus wrought upon them.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
18	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	widows	widow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	orphans	orphan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
44	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | This | the king |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
| 2 | **swear** | participle |  | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | would | King |  |  | the morrow |  | thither *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on morrow=Location |
| 4 | **lay** | past · perfect | King | waste |  |  |  | the country *obl* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Result |
| 5 | **destroy** | past | This *not said here* | the churches |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Patient |
| 6 | **make** | past | This *not said here* | many widows and orphans |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset widow=Product |
| 7 | **is** | past | all land |  |  | terror |  | for the harm | 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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