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title: Sir Agloval made answer: "Sir Knight, I make no denial, yet have I b… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Agloval made answer: "Sir Knight, I make no denial, yet have I but seldom been at rest. Who acts: Sir. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 7

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Sir Agloval made answer: "Sir Knight, I make no denial, yet have I but seldom been at rest.

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**Who acts:** Sir · **What happens:** make, have, be · **To what, where:** answer, denial, rest · **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 (Sir), 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:pg8447:10:7
# text = Sir Agloval made answer: "Sir Knight, I make no denial, yet have I but seldom been at rest.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	denial	denial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Sir | answer |  |  |  | Knight  Sir *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Sir | no denial |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent denial=Product |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | participle | Sir *not said here* |  |  | rest |  | seldom *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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