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title: The minstrels and the heralds received great largesse, for there was… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The minstrels and the heralds received great largesse, for there was gold enow; each had that which he desired. Who acts: minstrels. 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 64

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The minstrels and the heralds received great largesse, for there was gold enow; each had that which he desired.

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**Who acts:** minstrels · **What happens:** receive, be, have, desire · **To what, where:** great largesse, gold enow

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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 (minstrels), 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:pg8447:12:64
# text = The minstrels and the heralds received great largesse, for there was gold enow; each had that which he desired.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	heralds	herald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	largesse	largesse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	enow	enow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | the minstrels and the heralds | great largesse |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent largesse=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | gold enow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | the minstrels and the heralds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **desire** | past |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; man *nsubj* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: 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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