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title: Little thought had he of the treason which in short while befell him. — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Little thought had he of the treason which in short while befell him. Who acts: Little thought. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 65

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Little thought had he of the treason which in short while befell him.

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**Who acts:** Little thought · **What happens:** have, befall · **To what, where:** treason, thought

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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 (Little thought), 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:pg8447:6:65
# text = Little thought had he of the treason which in short while befell him.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	befell	befall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Little thought | the treason  thought |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treason=Patient |
| 2 | **befall** | past | Little thought *not said here* | thought |  |  |  |  | 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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