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title: There was bliss and great rejoicing fourteen days, even till nightfa… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was bliss and great rejoicing fourteen days, even till nightfall did they hold high feast with open doors; never a portal was shut. Who acts: nightfall, portal. 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 61

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There was bliss and great rejoicing fourteen days, even till nightfall did they hold high feast with open doors; never a portal was shut.

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**Who acts:** nightfall, portal · **What happens:** rejoice, hold, not be · **To what, where:** high feast

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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 (nightfall, portal), 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:pg8447:12:61
# text = There was bliss and great rejoicing fourteen days, even till nightfall did they hold high feast with open doors; never a portal was shut.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
3	bliss	bliss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
7	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	till	till	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	portal	portal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hold** | past · do-support | nightfall | high feast |  |  |  | with open doors; bliss *nsubj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | a portal |  |  |  |  | shut *property* | tree rules |

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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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