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title: "Dear son," quoth Sir Agloval, "then did my brother cease his quest… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dear son," quoth Sir Agloval, "then did my brother cease his quest for the Spear and the Grail, and the adventure on which he was bound, and came hither as swiftly as he might to mine uncle the hermit, and clothed himself in this habit, through that which the clerk foretold me. Who acts: Dear son, 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 68

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"Dear son," quoth Sir Agloval, "then did my brother cease his quest for the Spear and the Grail, and the adventure on which he was bound, and came hither as swiftly as he might to mine uncle the hermit, and clothed himself in this habit, through that which the clerk foretold me.

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**Who acts:** Dear son, adventure, clerk, son · **What happens:** quoth, do, cease, be, come, clothe · **To what, where:** Sir, brother, quest, uncle, son, habit · **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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear son, adventure, clerk, son), 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:pg8447:10:68
# text = "Dear son," quoth Sir Agloval, "then did my brother cease his quest for the Spear and the Grail, and the adventure on which he was bound, and came hither as swiftly as he might to mine uncle the hermit, and clothed himself in this habit, through that which the clerk foretold me.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	quoth	quoth	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Spear	Spear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Grail	grail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	bound	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
36	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	as	as	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
50	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	49	obj	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	det	_	_
53	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	through	through	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
56	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	59	nsubj	_	_
57	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	59	nsubj	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
60	foretold	foretell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	acl	_	_
61	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quoth** | infinitive | Dear son | Sir |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Dear son *not said here* | my brother |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cease** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dear son *not said here* | son's quest |  |  |  | for the Spear and the Grail | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality quest=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the adventure |  |  |  |  | which *obl*; son *nsubj*; bound *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | past |  | uncle  the hermit |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **clothe** *in a quote* | past |  | son |  | this habit |  | through the clerk  that | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 7 | **foretell** *in a quote* | participle | the clerk  that *not said here* | door |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 8 | **quest** *in a quote* |  | son |  |  |  |  | for the Spear and the Grail | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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