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title: Then might ye see the blood run red upon the ground for the good kni… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then might ye see the blood run red upon the ground for the good knight's sword spared neither horse nor man. Who acts: ye, sword. 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 pra
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 59

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Then might ye see the blood run red upon the ground for the good knight's sword spared neither horse nor man.

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**Who acts:** ye, sword · **What happens:** see, run, spare · **To what, where:** blood, ground, horse

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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 (ye, sword), 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:pg8447:7:59
# text = Then might ye see the blood run red upon the ground for the good knight's sword spared neither horse nor man.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	spared	spare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
19	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | might | ye | the blood |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus |
| 2 | **run** | present |  |  |  | the ground |  | red *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ground=Trajectory |
| 3 | **spare** | past | the good knight's sword | horse nor man |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent horse=Asset |

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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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