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title: But that which grieved him the most was his sorrow for his good swor… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: But that which grieved him the most was his sorrow for his good sword which he had thus lost, for it was a sword of choice. Who acts: that, sorrow. 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
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 29

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But that which grieved him the most was his sorrow for his good sword which he had thus lost, for it was a sword of choice.

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**Who acts:** that, sorrow · **What happens:** grieve, be, lose · **To what, where:** Sir, sorrow, good sword

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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 (that, sorrow), 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:pg8447:9:29
# text = But that which grieved him the most was his sorrow for his good sword which he had thus lost, for it was a sword of choice.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grieve** | past | that | Sir |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Sir's sorrow |  |  |  | for Sir's good sword; Sir *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive |  | Sir's good sword |  |  |  | Sir *nsubj*; thus *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | past | sorrow |  |  |  |  | for a sword; of choice | 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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