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title: Many rich gifts were given, good steeds, raiment of fair colours, ma… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many rich gifts were given, good steeds, raiment of fair colours, many shillings, many pounds, great plenty of all things by which men may the more blithely live. Who acts: Many rich gifts. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. We
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 63

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Many rich gifts were given, good steeds, raiment of fair colours, many shillings, many pounds, great plenty of all things by which men may the more blithely live.

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**Who acts:** Many rich gifts · **What happens:** give, live · **To what, where:** Many rich gifts

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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 (Many rich gifts), 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:pg8447:12:63
# text = Many rich gifts were given, good steeds, raiment of fair colours, many shillings, many pounds, great plenty of all things by which men may the more blithely live.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shillings	shilling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	blithely	blithely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl:relcl	_	_
33	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | Many rich gifts and good steeds and raiment of fair colours and many shillings and many pounds and great plenty of all things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V» |
| 2 | **live** | present | Many rich gifts and good steeds and raiment of fair colours and many shillings and many pounds and great plenty of all things |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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