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title: There was feasting and great merriment; there were all well served w… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was feasting and great merriment; there were all well served with everything on earth that they might desire. Who acts: bliss. 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 62

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There was feasting and great merriment; there were all well served with everything on earth that they might desire.

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**Who acts:** bliss · **What happens:** be, feast, serve, desire · **To what, where:** earth

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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 (bliss), 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:pg8447:12:62
# text = There was feasting and great merriment; there were all well served with everything on earth that they might desire.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	feasting	feast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	merriment	merriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feast** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | great merriment *conj* | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **serve** | past · passive |  |  |  | there |  | with everything on earth; well *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with everything=Theme |
| 4 | **desire** | might | bliss | earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot earth=Theme |

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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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