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title: Then came they in, who stood without, bearing a bier, and making so… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came they in, who stood without, bearing a bier, and making so great cry and lamentation that men heard it far and near through the open doorways. Who acts: tidings, men. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening,
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 94

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Then came they in, who stood without, bearing a bier, and making so great cry and lamentation that men heard it far and near through the open doorways.

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**Who acts:** tidings, men · **What happens:** come, stand, bear, make, hear · **To what, where:** bier, great cry, open doorways

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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 (tidings, men), 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:pg8447:5:94
# text = Then came they in, who stood without, bearing a bier, and making so great cry and lamentation that men heard it far and near through the open doorways.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bier	bier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	near	near	ADV	RB	_	25	conj	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	doorways	doorway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | tidings *= tiding* |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bear** | gerund |  | a bier |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bier=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | tidings *= tiding* *not said here* | great cry and lamentation |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cry=Product |
| 5 | **hear** | past | men | great cry and lamentation |  | the open doorways |  | bier *obj*; far *property* | tree rules |

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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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