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description: So weary and so weak were they that they lay all along the road, discomfited, prone on the earth, as those who have sore need of rest. Who acts: blows. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, with its depend
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 62

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So weary and so weak were they that they lay all along the road, discomfited, prone on the earth, as those who have sore need of rest.

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**Who acts:** blows · **What happens:** be, discomfit, have, need · **To what, where:** prone, earth, sore need, rest

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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 (blows), 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:pg8447:5:62
# text = So weary and so weak were they that they lay all along the road, discomfited, prone on the earth, as those who have sore need of rest.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	along	along	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	discomfited	discomfit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	prone	prone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	conj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | blows *= blow* |  |  |  |  | along the road; lay *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **discomfit** | past | blows *= blow* *not said here* | prone |  | the earth |  | those *conj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prone=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | sore need of rest |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient |
| 5 | **need** |  |  | rest |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: of=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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