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title: The maiden ware a robe of green silk, that was rent in many places,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The maiden ware a robe of green silk, that was rent in many places, 'twas the cruel knight had wrought the mischief. Who acts: maiden ware, twas. 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 t
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 78

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The maiden ware a robe of green silk, that was rent in many places, 'twas the cruel knight had wrought the mischief.

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**Who acts:** maiden ware, twas · **What happens:** rend, wrought · **To what, where:** maiden ware, many places, cruel knight

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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 (maiden ware, twas), 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:pg8447:4:78
# text = The maiden ware a robe of green silk, that was rent in many places, 'twas the cruel knight had wrought the mischief.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ware	ware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	rent	rend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rend** | past · passive | the maiden ware *not said here* | the maiden ware |  | many places  twas |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **wrought** | past · perfect · passive | twas *not said here* | the cruel knight |  |  |  | the mischief *obj* | 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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