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title: Thus were they put to rout, and either slain or driven from the fiel… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus were they put to rout, and either slain or driven from the field, or helpless of limb; some who came thither ahorse had lost their steeds, and must rue their journey. Who acts: arm, some. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 63

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Thus were they put to rout, and either slain or driven from the field, or helpless of limb; some who came thither ahorse had lost their steeds, and must rue their journey.

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**Who acts:** arm, some · **What happens:** be, rout, drive, come, lose, rue · **To what, where:** slain, field, steeds, journey

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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, some), 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:pg8447:7:63
# text = Thus were they put to rout, and either slain or driven from the field, or helpless of limb; some who came thither ahorse had lost their steeds, and must rue their journey.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	rout	rout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	helpless	helpless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	ahorse	ahorse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	rue	rue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | arm |  |  |  |  | either slain *obl*; put, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rout** | to-infinitive | arm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drive** | participle |  | either slain *not said here* |  | the field |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from field=Trajectory |
| 4 | **come** | past | some |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; ahorse *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** | past · perfect | some *not said here* | arm's steeds |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Eventuality |
| 6 | **rue** | must | some *not said here* | arm's journey |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer journey=Stimulus |
| 7 | **journey** |  | arm |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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