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title: Now doth the adventure tell us that when Sir Lancelot departed from… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now doth the adventure tell us that when Sir Lancelot departed from Sir Gawain at the cross-roads he delayed not, but rode that same hour till he came to the waste land wherein the beast had wrought havoc. Who acts: Sir, beast. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose fr
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 90

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Now doth the adventure tell us that when Sir Lancelot departed from Sir Gawain at the cross-roads he delayed not, but rode that same hour till he came to the waste land wherein the beast had wrought havoc.

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**Who acts:** Sir, beast · **What happens:** do, tell, depart, not delay, ride, come · **To what, where:** adventure, us, cross-roads, waste land, wrought havoc · **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, beast), 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:pg8447:10:90
# text = Now doth the adventure tell us that when Sir Lancelot departed from Sir Gawain at the cross-roads he delayed not, but rode that same hour till he came to the waste land wherein the beast had wrought havoc.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	doth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cross-roads	cross-road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	delayed	delay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	havoc	havoc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the adventure |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 3 | **depart** | past | Sir |  |  | the cross-roads |  | from Sir | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sir=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **not** **delay** | past | Sir | the cross-roads *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent cross-road=Source |
| 5 | **ride** | past |  |  |  |  | hour |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come** | past | Sir |  |  | the waste land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **have** | past | the beast | wrought havoc |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent havoc=Patient |

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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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