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title: "They counted themselves for lost, deeming that I were the devil, an… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: "They counted themselves for lost, deeming that I were the devil, and were sore afeard, and put out to sea. Who acts: adventures, Sir. 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
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 54

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"They counted themselves for lost, deeming that I were the devil, and were sore afeard, and put out to sea.

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**Who acts:** adventures, Sir · **What happens:** count, lose, deem, be, put out · **To what, where:** adventures, devil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (adventures, Sir), 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:pg8447:9:54
# text = "They counted themselves for lost, deeming that I were the devil, and were sore afeard, and put out to sea.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	deeming	deem	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	afeard	afeard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** *in a quote* | past | adventures *= adventure* | adventures *= adventure* |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** *in a quote* | participle | adventures *= adventure* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **deem** *in a quote* | gerund | adventures *= adventure* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Sir | the devil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | afeard *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **put out** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to sea | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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