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title: Thus went the twain into the chapel, where they found that good man,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus went the twain into the chapel, where they found that good man, the hermit, and Morien, who was black of face and of limb. Who acts: Methinks, Morien. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8, with its de
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 57

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Thus went the twain into the chapel, where they found that good man, the hermit, and Morien, who was black of face and of limb.

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**Who acts:** Methinks, Morien · **What happens:** go, find, be · **To what, where:** twain, chapel, good man

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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 (Methinks, Morien), 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:pg8447:8:57
# text = Thus went the twain into the chapel, where they found that good man, the hermit, and Morien, who was black of face and of limb.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  | the twain |  | the chapel |  | thus *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location twain=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | Methinks *= methink* | good man and the hermit |  |  |  | Morien *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | Morien |  |  |  |  | of face; limb *conj*; black *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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