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title: He who came betimes to the conflict, and fled without waiting to see… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: He who came betimes to the conflict, and fled without waiting to see what might chance further, he was blithe! Who acts: 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 tree and the pragmat
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 62

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He who came betimes to the conflict, and fled without waiting to see what might chance further, he was blithe!

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**Who acts:** many · **What happens:** come, flee, wait, see, chance, be · **To what, where:** conflict

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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 (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:pg8447:7:62
# text = He who came betimes to the conflict, and fled without waiting to see what might chance further, he was blithe!
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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	betimes	betimes	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	further	further	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	blithe	blithe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	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 | many |  |  | the conflict |  | who *nsubj*; betimes *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to conflict=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **flee** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | many *not said here* |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **chance** | might |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | many |  |  |  |  | blithe *property* | tree rules |

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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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