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title: Little as they liked it they must needs bring King Arthur thither, a… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Little as they liked it they must needs bring King Arthur thither, and thereby make terms for the king, their lord. Who acts: points. 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
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 30

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Little as they liked it they must needs bring King Arthur thither, and thereby make terms for the king, their lord.

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**Who acts:** points · **What happens:** like, bring, make · **To what, where:** tale, King Arthur, terms

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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 (points), 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:pg8447:12:30
# text = Little as they liked it they must needs bring King Arthur thither, and thereby make terms for the king, their lord.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	fixed	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | past | points *= point* | tale |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | must | points *= point* |  | King Arthur |  |  | needs *nsubj*; thither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument arthur=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | points *= point* *not said here* | terms |  |  |  | for the king and points's lord; thereby *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent term=Product for king=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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