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title: When he came to the place he found Sir Lancelot sitting, binding up… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he came to the place he found Sir Lancelot sitting, binding up his wounds, which were many and deep. Who acts: monster, Sir, wounds. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 9

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When he came to the place he found Sir Lancelot sitting, binding up his wounds, which were many and deep.

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**Who acts:** monster, Sir, wounds · **What happens:** come, find, sit, bind up, be, wound · **To what, where:** place, Sir, wounds

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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 (monster, Sir, wounds), 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:pg8447:11:9
# text = When he came to the place he found Sir Lancelot sitting, binding up his wounds, which were many and deep.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	binding	bind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	appos	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | monster |  |  | the place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | monster | Sir |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent sir=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bind up** | gerund | Sir *not said here* | monster's wounds |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | monster's wounds |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | monster's wounds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **wound** |  | monster |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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