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title: Each saw the other's tears spring from their eyes and run down even… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Each saw the other's tears spring from their eyes and run down even to their beards when they parted asunder. Who acts: Each, tears. 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 p
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 47

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Each saw the other's tears spring from their eyes and run down even to their beards when they parted asunder.

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**Who acts:** Each, tears · **What happens:** see, spring, run down, part · **To what, where:** eyes, asunder

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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 (Each, tears), 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:pg8447:9:47
# text = Each saw the other's tears spring from their eyes and run down even to their beards when they parted asunder.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	spring	spring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	beards	beard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
21	asunder	asunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Each |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **spring** | present | the other's tears |  |  | tears's eyes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from eye=Trajectory |
| 3 | **run down** | infinitive | the other's tears *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to tears's beards *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beard=Result |
| 4 | **part** | past | tears *= tear* | asunder |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asunder=Patient |

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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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