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title: Now was King Arthur so blithe thereof that he bid hold a great court… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now was King Arthur so blithe thereof that he bid hold a great court, that he might give largesse to all who desired. Who acts: Arthur. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and t
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 37

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Now was King Arthur so blithe thereof that he bid hold a great court, that he might give largesse to all who desired.

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**Who acts:** Arthur · **What happens:** be, bid, hold, give, desire · **To what, where:** King Arthur, great court, largesse, all

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arthur), 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:pg8447:12:37
# text = Now was King Arthur so blithe thereof that he bid hold a great court, that he might give largesse to all who desired.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	blithe	blithe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	largesse	largesse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | King Arthur |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bid** | past | Arthur |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive | Arthur *not said here* | a great court |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | might | Arthur | largesse | all |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent largesse=Theme to all=Recipient |
| 5 | **desire** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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