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title: Since he was upon their track he had risen long ere 'twas day, and n… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Since he was upon their track he had risen long ere 'twas day, and now came thither with the sun-rising. Who acts: Sir, sun. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 12

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Since he was upon their track he had risen long ere 'twas day, and now came thither with the sun-rising.

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**Who acts:** Sir, sun · **What happens:** be, rise, come · **To what, where:** Sir

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, sun), 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:pg8447:9:12
# text = Since he was upon their track he had risen long ere 'twas day, and now came thither with the sun-rising.
1	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ere	ere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Sir |  |  |  |  | upon knights's track; knights *= knight* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | past · perfect · passive |  | Sir |  |  |  | long ere  twas day *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | now | thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rise** | gerund | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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