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title: Morien saw well that his labour was in vain, for would he make the c… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Morien saw well that his labour was in vain, for would he make the crossing there was no man would abide his coming or receive him into his boat. Who acts: Morien, labour, man. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 30

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Morien saw well that his labour was in vain, for would he make the crossing there was no man would abide his coming or receive him into his boat.

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**Who acts:** Morien, labour, man · **What happens:** see, be, make, abide, come, receive · **To what, where:** crossing, Morien, boat

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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, labour, man), 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:pg8447:7:30
# text = Morien saw well that his labour was in vain, for would he make the crossing there was no man would abide his coming or receive him into his boat.
1	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	xcomp	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	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 | Morien |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | Morien's labour |  |  |  |  | vain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | would | Morien | the crossing |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crossing=Product |
| 4 | **be** | past | Morien *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **abide** | would | no man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | gerund | Morien |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **receive** | infinitive | no man *not said here* | Morien |  | Morien's boat |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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