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title: That night were they well entreated by the hermit, but the morrow so… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: That night were they well entreated by the hermit, but the morrow so soon as Sir Lancelot heard how it went with the queen, even should he gain the world thereby he had remained no longer, neither for wounds nor for weariness, for, he said, he was surely healed, and was fain to be at strife. Who act
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 29

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That night were they well entreated by the hermit, but the morrow so soon as Sir Lancelot heard how it went with the queen, even should he gain the world thereby he had remained no longer, neither for wounds nor for weariness, for, he said, he was surely healed, and was fain to be at strife.

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**Who acts:** matters, Sir, couch · **What happens:** be, hear, go, gain, remain, say · **To what, where:** world, Sir, strife · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matters, Sir, couch), 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:pg8447:11:29
# text = That night were they well entreated by the hermit, but the morrow so soon as Sir Lancelot heard how it went with the queen, even should he gain the world thereby he had remained no longer, neither for wounds nor for weariness, for, he said, he was surely healed, and was fain to be at strife.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
37	no	no	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	42	cc:preconj	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
43	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	45	cc	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux:pass	_	_
54	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
59	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	conj	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	63	mark	_	_
61	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	cop	_	_
62	at	at	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | matters *= matter* |  |  |  | night | by the hermit; the morrow *obl*; entreat, soon, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | past | couch |  |  |  |  | with the queen | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with queen=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **gain** | should | Sir | the world |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme |
| 5 | **remain** | past · perfect | Sir |  |  |  |  | for wounds nor weariness; long, thereby *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **heal** | past · passive |  | Sir |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | fain *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | strife |  |  | 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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