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title: Twere time enough for him to take hand therein, and stand by his com… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Twere time enough for him to take hand therein, and stand by his comrade, did he see him hard pressed. Who acts: life. 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 pragmatics of e
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 84

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Twere time enough for him to take hand therein, and stand by his comrade, did he see him hard pressed.

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**Who acts:** life · **What happens:** take, stand, see, press · **To what, where:** hand, Sir

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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 (life), 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:pg8447:2:85
# text = Twere time enough for him to take hand therein, and stand by his comrade, did he see him hard pressed.
1	Twere	Twere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | to-infinitive | life | hand |  |  | time | therein *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by life's comrade | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by comrade=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past · do-support | life | Sir |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **press** | past | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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