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title: They heard folk who stood without the walls, at the master gate, who… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: They heard folk who stood without the walls, at the master gate, who cried with loud voice, "Alas, alas! Who acts: words, folk, master gate. 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 a
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 88

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They heard folk who stood without the walls, at the master gate, who cried with loud voice, "Alas, alas!

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**Who acts:** words, folk, master gate · **What happens:** hear, stand, cry · **To what, where:** folk

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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 (words, folk, master gate), 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:pg8447:5:88
# text = They heard folk who stood without the walls, at the master gate, who cried with loud voice, "Alas, alas!
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | words *= word* | folk |  |  |  | the master gate *conj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer folk=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand** | past | folk |  |  |  |  | without the walls | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the master gate |  |  |  |  | with loud voice | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=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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