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title: As they stood and spake thus, sudden they saw the blood of the knigh… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: As they stood and spake thus, sudden they saw the blood of the knight who lay there dead, and which afore was stanched, leap forth afresh, and run crimson down the hall. Who acts: men, knight. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 106

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As they stood and spake thus, sudden they saw the blood of the knight who lay there dead, and which afore was stanched, leap forth afresh, and run crimson down the hall.

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**Who acts:** men, knight · **What happens:** stand, see, lie, stanch, leap, run · **To what, where:** blood, afore, crimson, hall

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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 (men, knight), 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:pg8447:5:106
# text = As they stood and spake thus, sudden they saw the blood of the knight who lay there dead, and which afore was stanched, leap forth afresh, and run crimson down the hall.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
19	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	afore	aforementioned	ADJ	GW	Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	stanched	stanch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	afresh	afresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
33	crimson	crimson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	down	down	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | spake *conj*; thus *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | men *= man* | the blood of the knight |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | past | the knight |  |  | there |  | dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stanch** | past · passive |  | afore |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leap** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | afresh *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **run** | infinitive |  | crimson |  | the hall |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent crimson=Theme down hall=Trajectory |

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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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