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title: So brought they their guests within the walls, and shut fast their g… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: So brought they their guests within the walls, and shut fast their gates, and hung out their shields, as men who might well defend themselves. Who acts: Matters, men. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12,
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 23

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So brought they their guests within the walls, and shut fast their gates, and hung out their shields, as men who might well defend themselves.

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**Who acts:** Matters, men · **What happens:** bring, guest, hang out, defend · **To what, where:** shields, Matters

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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, men), 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:pg8447:12:23
# text = So brought they their guests within the walls, and shut fast their gates, and hung out their shields, as men who might well defend themselves.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	within	within	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
12	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past |  |  |  |  |  | within the walls | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **guest** |  | Matters *= matter* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hang out** | past |  | Matters's shields |  |  |  | as men | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=Patient |
| 4 | **defend** | might | men | Matters *= matter* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary |

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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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