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title: And all the day he met no man of whom he might ask concerning his fa… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the day he met no man of whom he might ask concerning his father; 'twas labour wasted, for all who saw him fled from him. Who acts: Morien, twas labour, all. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7, w
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 15

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And all the day he met no man of whom he might ask concerning his father; 'twas labour wasted, for all who saw him fled from him.

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**Who acts:** Morien, twas labour, all · **What happens:** meet, ask, concern, waste, see, flee · **To what, where:** man, father, Morien

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morien, twas labour, all), 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:pg8447:7:15
# text = And all the day he met no man of whom he might ask concerning his father; 'twas labour wasted, for all who saw him fled from him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	compound	_	_
20	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wasted	waste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	nsubj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | Morien | no man |  |  | day |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | might | Morien |  |  |  |  | of no man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of whom=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **concern** *not said to happen* | gerund | Morien *not said here* | Morien's father |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer |
| 4 | **waste** | past | twas labour |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** | past |  | Morien |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 6 | **flee** | past | all |  |  |  |  | from Morien | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from he=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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