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title: And the good man answered and said 'twas but the other day, afore no… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the good man answered and said 'twas but the other day, afore noon, that he had seen two knights who were wondrous like unto each other. " Who acts: good man, man, two knights. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Ope
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 6

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And the good man answered and said 'twas but the other day, afore noon, that he had seen two knights who were wondrous like unto each other. "

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**Who acts:** good man, man, two knights · **What happens:** answer, say, see, be · **To what, where:** twas, two knights · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (good man, man, two knights), 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:pg8447:4:6
# text = And the good man answered and said 'twas but the other day, afore noon, that he had seen two knights who were wondrous like unto each other. "
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	afore	afore	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	26	obl	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the good man |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the good man *not said here* | twas but the other day and noon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | man | two knights |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | two knights |  |  |  |  | like each; wondrous *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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