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title: The morning early, even as it dawned and men might see clearly and w… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The morning early, even as it dawned and men might see clearly and well (which comforted him much), he came safely ahorse to where one might make the crossing, but he saw never a soul; no man dwelt thereabout, for the robbers had laid waste the land, and driven away the folk so that none remained. '
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 20

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The morning early, even as it dawned and men might see clearly and well (which comforted him much), he came safely ahorse to where one might make the crossing, but he saw never a soul; no man dwelt thereabout, for the robbers had laid waste the land, and driven away the folk so that none remained. '

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**Who acts:** place, men, man, one, none · **What happens:** dawn, see, comfort, come, make, dwell · **To what, where:** man, crossing, soul, thereabout, robbers, folk

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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 (place, men, man, one), 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:pg8447:7:20
# text = The morning early, even as it dawned and men might see clearly and well (which comforted him much), he came safely ahorse to where one might make the crossing, but he saw never a soul; no man dwelt thereabout, for the robbers had laid waste the land, and driven away the folk so that none remained. '
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	ahorse	ahorse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nsubj	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
38	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
42	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	43	det	_	_
43	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
45	thereabout	thereabout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	_
52	waste	waste	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	_
58	away	away	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
61	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
62	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
63	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	64	nsubj	_	_
64	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
66	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dawn** | past | place |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | might | men |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **comfort** | past |  | man |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **come** | past | man |  |  |  |  | ahorse *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | might | one | the crossing |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crossing=Product |
| 6 | **see** | past | man | a soul |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soul=Stimulus |
| 7 | **dwell** | past | no man | thereabout |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thereabout=Location |
| 8 | **lay** | past · perfect · passive |  | the robbers |  |  |  | waste the land | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 9 | **drive away** | participle | no man *not said here* | the folk |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme folk=Trajectory |
| 10 | **remain** | past | none |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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