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title: The lord gave command from within that they should ask what company… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The lord gave command from within that they should ask what company stood without, and what tidings they bare. Who acts: lord, sorrows, company. 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 tr
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 92

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The lord gave command from within that they should ask what company stood without, and what tidings they bare.

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**Who acts:** lord, sorrows, company · **What happens:** give, ask, stand, bare · **To what, where:** command, tidings

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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 (lord, sorrows, company), 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:pg8447:5:92
# text = The lord gave command from within that they should ask what company stood without, and what tidings they bare.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	nmod	_	_
6	within	within	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
12	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	parataxis	_	_
18	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	bare	bare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the lord | command |  |  |  | what  tidings *parataxis* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | should | sorrows *= sorrow* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
| 3 | **stand** | past | company |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bare** | present | sorrows *= sorrow* | tidings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=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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