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title: The good steed breasted the current, swimming as best it might and b… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The good steed breasted the current, swimming as best it might and brought its master to the further side. ' Who acts: good steed. 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 tree and the pra
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 83

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The good steed breasted the current, swimming as best it might and brought its master to the further side. '

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**Who acts:** good steed · **What happens:** breast, bring · **To what, where:** current, master, further side

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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 steed), 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:pg8447:4:83
# text = The good steed breasted the current, swimming as best it might and brought its master to the further side. '
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	breasted	breast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	nmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breast** | past | the good steed | the current and swimming |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent current=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past | the good steed *not said here* | current's master |  | the further side |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent master=Theme to side=Destination |

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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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