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title: Twas great marvel that they were not drowned, horse and man, for the… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Twas great marvel that they were not drowned, horse and man, for the river was deep, and the stream ran swiftly. Who acts: great marvel, Twas, stream. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4, with its depende
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 84

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Twas great marvel that they were not drowned, horse and man, for the river was deep, and the stream ran swiftly.

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**Who acts:** great marvel, Twas, stream · **What happens:** not drown, be, run · **To what, where:** twas

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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 (great marvel, Twas, stream), 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:pg8447:4:84
# text = Twas great marvel that they were not drowned, horse and man, for the river was deep, and the stream ran swiftly.
1	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	marvel	marvel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **drown** | past · passive | great marvel and horse and man *not said here* | twas *= twa* |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Twas and great marvel and horse and man |  |  |  |  | the river *nsubj*; deep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | past | the stream |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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