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title: When the knights of whom I tell ye came into Arthur's land they saw… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the knights of whom I tell ye came into Arthur's land they saw there a castle, around which ran a swift water, broad and deep. Who acts: I, knights. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11, with its dep
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 36

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When the knights of whom I tell ye came into Arthur's land they saw there a castle, around which ran a swift water, broad and deep.

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**Who acts:** I, knights · **What happens:** tell, come, see, run · **To what, where:** ye, land, castle, swift water · **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 (I, knights), 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:pg8447:11:36
# text = When the knights of whom I tell ye came into Arthur's land they saw there a castle, around which ran a swift water, broad and deep.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	iobj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I |  | ye |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | past | the knights |  |  | Arthur's land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | knights *= knight* | a castle |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |
| 4 | **run** | past |  | a swift water |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory |

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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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