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title: They held there within that which they deemed many would buy dearly,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: They held there within that which they deemed many would buy dearly, nor count the gold therefor, nor might they well tell how they had lost it. Who acts: Matters, many. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 21

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They held there within that which they deemed many would buy dearly, nor count the gold therefor, nor might they well tell how they had lost it.

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**Who acts:** Matters, many · **What happens:** hold, deem, buy, count, tell, lose · **To what, where:** gold therefor, therefor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Matters, many), 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:pg8447:12:21
# text = They held there within that which they deemed many would buy dearly, nor count the gold therefor, nor might they well tell how they had lost it.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	deemed	deem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	dearly	dearly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
15	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	therefor	therefor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | Matters *= matter* |  |  | there |  | within that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **deem** | past | Matters *= matter* |  |  |  |  | which *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **buy** | would | many |  |  |  |  | dearly *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **count** | infinitive | many *not said here* | the gold therefor |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent therefor=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | might | Matters *= matter* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lose** | past · perfect | Matters *= matter* | therefor |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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