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title: Evil was his thought, and he cried: "Vassal, how were ye so bold as… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Evil was his thought, and he cried: "Vassal, how were ye so bold as to do me this hurt and this shame? Who acts: Evil, knight, ye, this. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and t
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 4

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Evil was his thought, and he cried: "Vassal, how were ye so bold as to do me this hurt and this shame?

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**Who acts:** Evil, knight, ye, this · **What happens:** be, cry, do, hurt · **To what, where:** thought, knight · **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 (Evil, knight, ye, this), 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:pg8447:5:4
# text = Evil was his thought, and he cried: "Vassal, how were ye so bold as to do me this hurt and this shame?
1	Evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Vassal	vassal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Evil | knight's thought |  |  |  | knight *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | knight | knight's thought *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Topic |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* |  | Evil *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | ye |  |  |  |  | bold *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* |  | knight |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
| 6 | **hurt** *in a quote* | past | this |  |  |  |  | this shame *conj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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