--- title: Morien's counsel seemed to them good, and although he were not fair… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Morien's counsel seemed to them good, and although he were not fair to look upon yet when he stood upon his feet it seemed to them that had he the chance he might put to the rout a whole army! Who acts: counsel, it, feet. 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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 (counsel, it, feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:11:70 # text = Morien's counsel seemed to them good, and although he were not fair to look upon yet when he stood upon his feet it seemed to them that had he the chance he might put to the rout a whole army! 1 Morien Morien PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 counsel counsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 although although SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 csubj _ _ 17 upon upon ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 yet yet ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 22 upon upon ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 rout rout NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | Morien's counsel | | matters *= matter* | | | good *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** | past | counsel | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **stand** | past | counsel | | | counsel's feet | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon foot=Location | | 5 | **seem** | past | it | counsel's feet *not said here* | matters *= matter* | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foot=Attribute | | 6 | **have** | past | counsel's feet | counsel | | | | the chance *obj* | tree rules | | 7 | **put** | might | counsel | a whole army | | | | to the rout | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent army=Goal | 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. **Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. 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