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title: Never was a man more oppressed with hunger and thirst and weariness;… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never was a man more oppressed with hunger and thirst and weariness; and he thought in his heart that he could do naught better than ride thither, and see if by hap he might find lodging for the night. Who acts: Sir. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Medi
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 70

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Never was a man more oppressed with hunger and thirst and weariness; and he thought in his heart that he could do naught better than ride thither, and see if by hap he might find lodging for the night.

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**Who acts:** Sir · **What happens:** not oppress, think, do, ride, see, find · **To what, where:** man, heart, naught · **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 (Sir), 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:pg8447:5:70
# text = Never was a man more oppressed with hunger and thirst and weariness; and he thought in his heart that he could do naught better than ride thither, and see if by hap he might find lodging for the night.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	oppressed	oppress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
24	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	23	obj	_	_
25	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	xcomp	_	_
26	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	hap	hap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
38	lodging	lodge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	xcomp	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **oppress** | past · passive |  | a man |  |  |  | with hunger and thirst and weariness | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Sir |  |  | Sir's heart |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | could | Sir | naught |  |  |  | good *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Eventuality |
| 4 | **ride** | infinitive | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | might | Sir |  |  |  |  | by hap | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **lodge** | gerund | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «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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