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title: Sir Agloval looked upon Morien, and marked right well the fashion of… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Agloval looked upon Morien, and marked right well the fashion of him, and marvelled within himself what manner of knight he might well be who bare such guise. Who acts: Sir, manner. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 3

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Sir Agloval looked upon Morien, and marked right well the fashion of him, and marvelled within himself what manner of knight he might well be who bare such guise.

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**Who acts:** Sir, manner · **What happens:** look, mark, marvell, be · **To what, where:** fashion, bare such guise

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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, manner), 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:pg8447:10:3
# text = Sir Agloval looked upon Morien, and marked right well the fashion of him, and marvelled within himself what manner of knight he might well be who bare such guise.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	right	right	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	marvelled	marvell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	within	within	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	_
20	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	21	det	_	_
21	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	guise	guise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Sir |  |  |  |  | upon Morien | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon morien=Theme |
| 2 | **mark** | past | Sir *not said here* | the fashion of Sir |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fashion=Destination |
| 3 | **marvell** | past | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within Sir | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | might | what manner of knight | bare such guise |  |  |  | Sir *nsubj*; who *nsubj*; well *property* | tree rules |

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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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