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title: He saw and heard no man, nor did folk come and go there, but he saw… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw and heard no man, nor did folk come and go there, but he saw ships at anchor, and shipmen therein, who were wont to take over those folk who would cross into Ireland. Who acts: man, folk, shipmen. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» b
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 22

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He saw and heard no man, nor did folk come and go there, but he saw ships at anchor, and shipmen therein, who were wont to take over those folk who would cross into Ireland.

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**Who acts:** man, folk, shipmen · **What happens:** see, hear, come, go, be, take over · **To what, where:** man, ships, anchor, folk, Ireland

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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 (man, folk, shipmen), 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:pg8447:7:22
# text = He saw and heard no man, nor did folk come and go there, but he saw ships at anchor, and shipmen therein, who were wont to take over those folk who would cross into Ireland.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	anchor	anchor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	shipmen	shipmen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
25	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	csubj	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | man |  |  |  |  | shipmen *conj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hear** | past | man *not said here* | no man |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past · do-support | folk |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | folk *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | past | folk | ships |  | anchor |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | past | shipmen |  |  |  |  | wont *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **take over** | to-infinitive |  | that folk |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Theme |
| 8 | **cross** | would | that folk |  |  | Ireland |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into ireland=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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