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description: Then he called together his folk to one side of the hall, and said that his oath and his safe conduct might in no wise be broken, for his son were thereby but ill-avenged, valiant knight though he was. Who acts: ware. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Med
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 8

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Then he called together his folk to one side of the hall, and said that his oath and his safe conduct might in no wise be broken, for his son were thereby but ill-avenged, valiant knight though he was.

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**Who acts:** ware · **What happens:** call together, say, break, be, avenge, conduct · **To what, where:** folk, one side, wise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ware), 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:pg8447:6:8
# text = Then he called together his folk to one side of the hall, and said that his oath and his safe conduct might in no wise be broken, for his son were thereby but ill-avenged, valiant knight though he was.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	obl	_	_
26	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	avenged	avenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
42	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call together** *speech: assert* | past | ware | ware's folk | one side of the hall |  | then | together *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to side=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ware *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **break** | infinitive · passive |  | wise |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for ware's son; avenged valiant knight *conj*; thereby *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **avenge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** | past | ware |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **conduct** |  | ware |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: 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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