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title: Little did they reck of all they brought with them; he might win it… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Little did they reck of all they brought with them; he might win it who had a mind thereto. Who acts: slain, guest. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 18

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Little did they reck of all they brought with them; he might win it who had a mind thereto.

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**Who acts:** slain, guest · **What happens:** reck, bring, win, have · **To what, where:** Little, best, mind

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slain, guest), 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:pg8447:12:18
# text = Little did they reck of all they brought with them; he might win it who had a mind thereto.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
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	reck	reck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	thereto	thereto	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reck** | past · do-support | slain | Little |  |  |  | of all | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past | slain |  |  |  |  | with knights *= knight* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **win** | might | guest | best *= good* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **have** | past |  | a mind |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; thereto *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |

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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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