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title: Twas right welcome to them who now partook of it; and through these… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Twas right welcome to them who now partook of it; and through these good victuals forgat they all their tribulation, as they ate and drank. Who acts: right welcome, Twas. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 15

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Twas right welcome to them who now partook of it; and through these good victuals forgat they all their tribulation, as they ate and drank.

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**Who acts:** right welcome, Twas · **What happens:** partake, eat, drink, tribulate · **To what, where:** victuals forgat, right welcome

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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 (right welcome, Twas), 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:pg8447:9:15
# text = Twas right welcome to them who now partook of it; and through these good victuals forgat they all their tribulation, as they ate and drank.
1	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	partook	partake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	victuals	victual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	forgat	forgat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	tribulation	tribulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **partake** | past | right welcome  Twas to Twas and this victuals forgat |  |  |  | now | of food | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | past | Twas *= twa* | this victuals forgat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgat=Patient |
| 3 | **drink** | past | Twas *= twa* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tribulate** |  | Twas *= twa* |  |  |  |  |  | nom tribulation «event 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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