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title: Each man turned his boat seaward, and put off from the shore, for Mo… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Each man turned his boat seaward, and put off from the shore, for Morien was to look upon even as if he were come out of hell. Who acts: man, Morien. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7, with its dependen
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 27

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Each man turned his boat seaward, and put off from the shore, for Morien was to look upon even as if he were come out of hell.

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**Who acts:** man, Morien · **What happens:** turn, put off, be, come out · **To what, where:** boat seaward, shore, Morien, hell

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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, Morien), 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:pg8447:7:27
# text = Each man turned his boat seaward, and put off from the shore, for Morien was to look upon even as if he were come out of hell.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	seaward	seaward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
20	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | each man | man's boat seaward |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seaward=Theme |
| 2 | **put off** | infinitive | each man *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Morien |  |  |  |  | look *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come out** | past · passive |  | Morien |  | hell |  |  | tree rules |

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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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