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description: When Sir Perceval heard this, never did knight receive so glad a welcome as that which he gave unto his nephew; so likewise did the hermit. ' Who acts: Sir, knight. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10, w
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 28

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When Sir Perceval heard this, never did knight receive so glad a welcome as that which he gave unto his nephew; so likewise did the hermit. '

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**Who acts:** Sir, knight · **What happens:** hear, not receive, give, do · **To what, where:** this, glad, hermit

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, knight), 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:pg8447:10:28
# text = When Sir Perceval heard this, never did knight receive so glad a welcome as that which he gave unto his nephew; so likewise did the hermit. '
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Sir | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **receive** | past · do-support | knight | glad  a welcome as that |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glad=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past |  |  |  |  |  | unto Sir's nephew; which *nsubj*; Sir *nsubj* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | past | Sir *not said here* | the hermit |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermit=Eventuality |

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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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