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title: There might ye see lying heads and hands, arms and legs; some hewn f… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: There might ye see lying heads and hands, arms and legs; some hewn from the body, some smitten in twain. Who acts: ye. 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 e
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 60

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There might ye see lying heads and hands, arms and legs; some hewn from the body, some smitten in twain.

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** see, lie, smite · **To what, where:** lying heads, some, twain

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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), 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:pg8447:7:60
# text = There might ye see lying heads and hands, arms and legs; some hewn from the body, some smitten in twain.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
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	0	root	_	_
5	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	hewn	hewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | might | ye | lying heads and hands and arms and legs |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smite** | participle · passive |  | some |  | twain |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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