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title: Twas all heath and sand, and no land beside; there grew neither barl… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Twas all heath and sand, and no land beside; there grew neither barley nor wheat. Who acts: land. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7, 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 7, sentence 21

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Twas all heath and sand, and no land beside; there grew neither barley nor wheat.

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**Who acts:** land · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** barley, Twas

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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 (land), 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:pg8447:7:21
# text = Twas all heath and sand, and no land beside; there grew neither barley nor wheat.
1	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	13	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
17	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | no land *not said here* | neither barley nor wheat |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location barley=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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