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title: Some came from the ditches where they had lain hidden, some out of b… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some came from the ditches where they had lain hidden, some out of bushes, some out of thickets, and some came forth from the hollow ways. Who acts: Some, ditches. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6, wit
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 89

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Some came from the ditches where they had lain hidden, some out of bushes, some out of thickets, and some came forth from the hollow ways.

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**Who acts:** Some, ditches · **What happens:** come, lie · **To what, where:** ditches, hollow ways

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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 (Some, ditches), 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:pg8447:6:89
# text = Some came from the ditches where they had lain hidden, some out of bushes, some out of thickets, and some came forth from the hollow ways.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ditches	ditch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	appos	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	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 | Some |  |  | the ditches |  | out some bushes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from ditch=Initial\_Location out bush=Destination |
| 2 | **lie** | past · perfect | ditches *= ditch* |  |  |  |  | hidden *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | some |  |  | the hollow ways |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from way=Initial\_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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