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title: There liveth not his like on earth, so strong, so bold, so skilled i… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: There liveth not his like on earth, so strong, so bold, so skilled in valiant deeds!" 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 96

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There liveth not his like on earth, so strong, so bold, so skilled in valiant deeds!"

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**What happens:** not live · **To what, where:** knight

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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: 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:pg8447:5:96
# text = There liveth not his like on earth, so strong, so bold, so skilled in valiant deeds!"
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	liveth	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	skilled	skilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **live** | present |  | knight |  | there |  | like earth | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme his=Location |

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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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