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title: They had sought the shrine of a saint, with them they had money and… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: They had sought the shrine of a saint, with them they had money and steeds, beside other goods, as befitted folk of high degree. Who acts: steeds. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4, with its dependency 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 13

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They had sought the shrine of a saint, with them they had money and steeds, beside other goods, as befitted folk of high degree.

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**Who acts:** steeds · **What happens:** seek, have, befit · **To what, where:** shrine, money

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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 (steeds), 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:pg8447:4:13
# text = They had sought the shrine of a saint, with them they had money and steeds, beside other goods, as befitted folk of high degree.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shrine	shrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	befitted	befit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past · perfect | steeds *= steed* | the shrine of a saint |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrine=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | steeds *= steed* | money and steeds and other goods |  |  |  | with steeds *= steed*; as befitted folk of high degree | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 3 | **befit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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