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title: They who might escape death fared little better, for good fortune ha… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: They who might escape death fared little better, for good fortune had departed from them--thus many chose their end. Who acts: arm, death, many. 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 tr
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 61

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They who might escape death fared little better, for good fortune had departed from them--thus many chose their end.

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**Who acts:** arm, death, many · **What happens:** escape, fare, depart, choose · **To what, where:** good fortune, end

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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 (arm, death, many), 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:pg8447:7:61
# text = They who might escape death fared little better, for good fortune had departed from them--thus many chose their end.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fared	fare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	_
20	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | might | arm |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fare** | past | death |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **depart** | past · perfect · passive |  | good fortune |  |  |  | from arm | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **choose** | past | many | arm's end |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=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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