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title: The king's folk who lay there were sore vexed thereat. — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The king's folk who lay there were sore vexed thereat. Who acts: folk. 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 every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 25

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The king's folk who lay there were sore vexed thereat.

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**Who acts:** folk · **What happens:** lie, be, vex

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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 (folk), 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:pg8447:12:25
# text = The king's folk who lay there were sore vexed thereat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	thereat	thereat	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the king's folk |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the king's folk |  |  |  |  | sore *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **vex** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | thereat *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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