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title: That men thrust and smote at him troubled him little, therein was he… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: That men thrust and smote at him troubled him little, therein was he like to his father, the noble knight Sir Agloval; he held parley with no man, but smote ever, blow after blow, on all who came nigh him. Who acts: men thrust, Sir. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Pro
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 56

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That men thrust and smote at him troubled him little, therein was he like to his father, the noble knight Sir Agloval; he held parley with no man, but smote ever, blow after blow, on all who came nigh him.

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**Who acts:** men thrust, Sir · **What happens:** smote, trouble, be, hold, blow, come · **To what, where:** Sir, parley, all

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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 (men thrust, Sir), 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:pg8447:7:56
# text = That men thrust and smote at him troubled him little, therein was he like to his father, the noble knight Sir Agloval; he held parley with no man, but smote ever, blow after blow, on all who came nigh him.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	smote	smote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	troubled	trouble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
28	parley	parley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	smote	smote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
38	after	after	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	obl	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
45	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smote** | infinitive | that men thrust *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Sir | tree rules |
| 2 | **trouble** | past | that men thrust | Sir |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer little=Result |
| 3 | **is** | past | Sir |  |  |  |  | to Sir's father; like, therein *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** | past | Sir | parley |  |  |  | with no man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parley=Theme |
| 5 | **smote** | infinitive | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **blow** | infinitive | Sir *not said here* |  |  | all | after blow |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **come** | past |  | Sir |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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