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title: It hath chanced afore this that I had lost crown and lands, save for… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: It hath chanced afore this that I had lost crown and lands, save for my knights; by them have I been victorious!" Who acts: I. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 62

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It hath chanced afore this that I had lost crown and lands, save for my knights; by them have I been victorious!"

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** chance, lose, save, have, be · **To what, where:** honour, that

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg8447:2:62
# text = It hath chanced afore this that I had lost crown and lands, save for my knights; by them have I been victorious!"
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	chanced	chance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	afore	afore	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
24	victorious	victorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chance** | present · passive |  | honour |  |  |  | afore this lost crown and lands | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
| 2 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive |  | that |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for my knights | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for knight=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  | by things *= thing* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | participle | I |  |  |  |  | victorious *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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