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title: Morien who came thither saw the gleam of many a hauberk; there were… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Morien who came thither saw the gleam of many a hauberk; there were armed folk enow! Who acts: Morien, armed folk enow. 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 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 40

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Morien who came thither saw the gleam of many a hauberk; there were armed folk enow!

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**Who acts:** Morien, armed folk enow · **What happens:** come, see, be · **To what, where:** gleam

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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, armed folk enow), 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:pg8447:7:40
# text = Morien who came thither saw the gleam of many a hauberk; there were armed folk enow!
1	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hauberk	hauberk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	enow	enow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Morien |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Morien *not said here* | the gleam of a many hauberk |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gleam=Stimulus |
| 3 | **be** | past | armed folk enow |  |  | there |  |  | 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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