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title: Then said they all who brought the dead man thither, that forsooth '… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said they all who brought the dead man thither, that forsooth 'twas a stranger knight who did this by his great valour; "Though we saw it not with our eyes, yet may we well bear witness to the death of many of our folk; and others are so sorely wounded that they may never more be healed. Who ac
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 103

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Then said they all who brought the dead man thither, that forsooth 'twas a stranger knight who did this by his great valour; "Though we saw it not with our eyes, yet may we well bear witness to the death of many of our folk; and others are so sorely wounded that they may never more be healed.

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**Who acts:** God, that, stranger knight, we, others · **What happens:** say, bring, twa, do, not see, bear · **To what, where:** dead man, this, valour, witness, God · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, that, stranger knight, we), 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:pg8447:5:103
# text = Then said they all who brought the dead man thither, that forsooth 'twas a stranger knight who did this by his great valour; "Though we saw it not with our eyes, yet may we well bear witness to the death of many of our folk; and others are so sorely wounded that they may never more be healed.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
13	forsooth	forsooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
41	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
42	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	57	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
54	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
55	so	so	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
56	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
58	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
59	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
60	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
61	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	64	advmod	_	_
62	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	64	nsubj:pass	_	_
63	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	aux:pass	_	_
64	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** | past | God |  | the dead man |  |  | who *nsubj*; thither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |
| 3 | **twa** |  | that |  |  |  |  | a stranger knight *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | past | a stranger knight | this |  |  |  | by heart's great valour | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | past | we | valour |  |  |  | our eyes *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **bear** *in a quote* | may | we | witness |  |  |  | to the death; well *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | others |  |  |  |  | sorely, wound *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **heal** *in a quote* | may · passive |  | God |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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