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title: The reward that Arthur gave them was exceeding great. — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The reward that Arthur gave them was exceeding great. Who acts: Arthur, reward. 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 39

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The reward that Arthur gave them was exceeding great.

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**Who acts:** Arthur, reward · **What happens:** give, exceed · **To what, where:** reward, deeds

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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 (Arthur, reward), 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:pg8447:12:39
# text = The reward that Arthur gave them was exceeding great.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Arthur | the reward *not said here* | deeds *= deed* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **exceed** | past · progressive | the reward |  |  |  |  | great *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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