--- title: For as they sat at table and ate and drank and had enow of all the e… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: For as they sat at table and ate and drank and had enow of all the earth might bear for the sustenance of man, and forgat thereby all sorrow, they heard sore wailing and lamentation, and the smiting together of hands, and knew not what it might mean. Who acts: words, earth. A sentence of «Morien: A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/5/87/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/5/) / 87 # Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 87 For as they sat at table and ate and drank and had enow of all the earth might bear for the sustenance of man, and forgat thereby all sorrow, they heard sore wailing and lamentation, and the smiting together of hands, and knew not what it might mean. **Who acts:** words, earth · **What happens:** sit, eat, drink, have, bear, hear · **To what, where:** table, enow, sore wailing · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (words, earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:5:87 # text = For as they sat at table and ate and drank and had enow of all the earth might bear for the sustenance of man, and forgat thereby all sorrow, they heard sore wailing and lamentation, and the smiting together of hands, and knew not what it might mean. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 enow enow NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 of of SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sustenance sustenance NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 forgat forgat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 28 thereby thereby ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 sorrow sorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 34 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 wailing wailing NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 lamentation lamentation NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 smiting smite VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 42 together together ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 48 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 49 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 52 obj _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 51 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | words *= word* | | | table | | forgat all sorrow *conj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | | 2 | **eat** | past | words *= word* *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **drink** | past | words *= word* *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | past | words *= word* *not said here* | enow | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enow=Patient | | 5 | **bear** | might | the earth | enow *not said here* | | | | for the sustenance of man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer enow=Stimulus for sustenance=Attribute | | 6 | **hear** | past | words *= word* | sore wailing and lamentation | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wailing=Stimulus | | 7 | **smite** | gerund | words *= word* *not said here* | | | | | of hands; together *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **not** **know** | past | words *= word* *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 9 | **mean** | might | earth | | | | | what *obj* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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. **Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. 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