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title: But 'twas their dread of Morien's mighty blows, and of Sir Lancelot,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: But 'twas their dread of Morien's mighty blows, and of Sir Lancelot, Sir Gawain, and Sir Perceval, who, on the field, had brought many in sore terror and dread of death. Who acts: twas, Matters, Morien. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 22

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But 'twas their dread of Morien's mighty blows, and of Sir Lancelot, Sir Gawain, and Sir Perceval, who, on the field, had brought many in sore terror and dread of death.

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**Who acts:** twas, Matters, Morien · **What happens:** bring, dread, blow · **To what, where:** many, sore terror, twas, mighty blows, death

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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 (twas, Matters, Morien), 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:pg8447:12:22
# text = But 'twas their dread of Morien's mighty blows, and of Sir Lancelot, Sir Gawain, and Sir Perceval, who, on the field, had brought many in sore terror and dread of death.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · perfect | twas *not said here* | many |  | sore terror and dread of death |  | of Lancelot  Sir and Sir and the field  Lancelot  Sir and Sir and the field  Lancelot | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent many=Theme of lancelot=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **dread** |  | Matters *= matter* | Morien's mighty blows |  |  |  |  | nom dread «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 4 | **blow** |  | Morien |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **dread** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom dread «feeling transitive»: of=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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