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title: Hither come folk stripped and bare-foot, doing penance for their sin… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hither come folk stripped and bare-foot, doing penance for their sins; and they who pass ahorse or afoot have here had many a prayer granted. Who acts: you, steeds. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4, wi
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 17

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Hither come folk stripped and bare-foot, doing penance for their sins; and they who pass ahorse or afoot have here had many a prayer granted.

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**Who acts:** you, steeds · **What happens:** come, strip, do, pass, have, grant · **To what, where:** folk, penance, many prayer

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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 (you, 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:pg8447:4:17
# text = Hither come folk stripped and bare-foot, doing penance for their sins; and they who pass ahorse or afoot have here had many a prayer granted.
1	Hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	stripped	strip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	penance	penance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
20	ahorse	ahorse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	afoot	afoot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | folk |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location folk=Theme |
| 2 | **strip** | participle |  | folk *not said here* |  |  |  | bare foot *conj* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | gerund |  | penance |  |  |  | for steeds's sins | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penance=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pass** | present | steeds *= steed* |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | present · perfect | steeds *= steed* *not said here* | a many prayer |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Patient |
| 6 | **grant** | participle |  | a many prayer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (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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