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title: By this was Sir Agloval whole, who had been wounded, and Morien aske… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: By this was Sir Agloval whole, who had been wounded, and Morien asked him straightway if he were rightly healed, and would now keep the oath which he had aforetime sworn unto his mother. Who acts: this, Morien. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval D
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 48

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By this was Sir Agloval whole, who had been wounded, and Morien asked him straightway if he were rightly healed, and would now keep the oath which he had aforetime sworn unto his mother.

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**Who acts:** this, Morien · **What happens:** be, ask, heal, keep, swear · **To what, where:** straightway, Sir, Morien, oath

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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 (this, Morien), 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:pg8447:12:48
# text = By this was Sir Agloval whole, who had been wounded, and Morien asked him straightway if he were rightly healed, and would now keep the oath which he had aforetime sworn unto his mother.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	aforetime	aforetime	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	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 | this |  |  |  |  | by Sir | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; wounded *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Morien | straightway | Sir |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **heal** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | Morien |  |  |  | rightly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **keep** | would |  | the oath |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme |
| 6 | **swear** | past · perfect · passive |  | the oath |  |  |  | unto Morien's mother; Morien *nsubj*; aforetime *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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