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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 99

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Then they dismounted, and made fast their steeds before the door, and cried with a loud voice to those within: "Let us in!

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**Who acts:** tears · **What happens:** dismount, make, cry, let in · **To what, where:** steeds, those, us · **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 (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:pg8447:9:99
# text = Then they dismounted, and made fast their steeds before the door, and cried with a loud voice to those within: "Let us in!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dismounted	dismount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
22	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	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 | **dismount** | past | tears *= tear* |  |  |  | then |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | tears's steeds |  |  | before the door | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset steed=Product |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | tears *= tear* *not said here* |  | those |  |  | with a loud voice | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to that=Recipient |
| 4 | **let in** *in a quote* | infinitive | tears *= tear* *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |

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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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