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description: Twas seven miles and more hard riding, ere they might find village or fort in King Arthur's land. Who acts: foes. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 32

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Twas seven miles and more hard riding, ere they might find village or fort in King Arthur's land.

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**Who acts:** foes · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** village, land, Twas

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foes), 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:pg8447:8:32
# text = Twas seven miles and more hard riding, ere they might find village or fort in King Arthur's land.
1	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	ere	ere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | might | foes *= foe* | village or fort |  | King Arthur's land |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Topic |

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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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