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description: So rode they all three together till they came to a parting of the ways where stood a fair cross, and thereon letters red as blood. Who acts: they, ways. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4, with its depe
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 1

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So rode they all three together till they came to a parting of the ways where stood a fair cross, and thereon letters red as blood.

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**Who acts:** they, ways · **What happens:** ride, come, stand, part · **To what, where:** three, parting, fair cross

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, ways), 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:pg8447:4:1
# text = So rode they all three together till they came to a parting of the ways where stood a fair cross, and thereon letters red as blood.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | they | all three |  |  |  | together *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | they |  |  | a parting of the ways |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to parting=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **stand** | past |  | a fair cross |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cross=Stimulus |
| 4 | **part** |  | the ways |  |  |  |  |  | nom parting «act intransitive»: of=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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