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title: But since he might scarce speak he made him to be disarmed, and stri… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: But since he might scarce speak he made him to be disarmed, and stripped to the skin, and wrapped in warm coverings and gave him a sop steeped in clear wine. Who acts: Knight, sop. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Ope
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 86

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But since he might scarce speak he made him to be disarmed, and stripped to the skin, and wrapped in warm coverings and gave him a sop steeped in clear wine.

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**Who acts:** Knight, sop · **What happens:** make, disarm, strip, wrap, give, steep · **To what, where:** Court, warm coverings, Knight

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knight, sop), 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:pg8447:1:87
# text = But since he might scarce speak he made him to be disarmed, and stripped to the skin, and wrapped in warm coverings and gave him a sop steeped in clear wine.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	since	since	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	speak	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	disarmed	disarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stripped	strip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	coverings	covering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sop	sop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	steeped	steep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Knight | Court |  |  | since scarce speak  Knight |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product |
| 2 | **disarm** | to-infinitive · passive | Knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **strip** | participle | Knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wrap** | participle |  |  |  | warm coverings |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in covering=Destination |
| 5 | **give** | past |  |  | Knight |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **steep** | past | a sop |  |  |  |  | in clear wine | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in wine=Instrument |

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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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