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description: Thus were they that night within the castle, neither with game nor with revel, but they held together as true knights and good comrades. Who acts: knights. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11, with its d
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 83

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Thus were they that night within the castle, neither with game nor with revel, but they held together as true knights and good comrades.

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**Who acts:** knights · **What happens:** be, hold together · **To what, where:** knights

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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 (knights), 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:pg8447:11:83
# text = Thus were they that night within the castle, neither with game nor with revel, but they held together as true knights and good comrades.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	within	within	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc:preconj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	revel	revel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | knights *= knight* |  |  | night | within the castle; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold together** | past | knights *= knight* |  |  |  |  | as true knights and good comrades; together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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