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title: For though the knight had well deserved his death yet had he there m… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: For though the knight had well deserved his death yet had he there many friends who lamented the loss that they had thereby suffered. Who acts: knight, many friends, friends. 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 6, sentence 46

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For though the knight had well deserved his death yet had he there many friends who lamented the loss that they had thereby suffered.

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**Who acts:** knight, many friends, friends · **What happens:** deserve, have, friend, lament, suffer, die · **To what, where:** knight, loss

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, many friends, friends), 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:pg8447:6:46
# text = For though the knight had well deserved his death yet had he there many friends who lamented the loss that they had thereby suffered.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lamented	lament	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deserve** | past · perfect · passive |  | the knight |  |  |  | knight's death *obj*; well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  | yet |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **friend** |  | knight |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lament** | past | many friends | the loss |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus |
| 5 | **suffer** | past · perfect | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | thereby *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **die** |  | knight |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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