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title: And for this cause would not Sir Lancelot and Sir Gawain and Sir Per… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: And for this cause would not Sir Lancelot and Sir Gawain and Sir Perceval remain afar, but took their leave of Sir Agloval and of Morien and of his mother, and rode on their way till they came to King Arthur at Camelot, where he abode, as it pleased him well to do when he would fain be at peace. Who
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 71

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And for this cause would not Sir Lancelot and Sir Gawain and Sir Perceval remain afar, but took their leave of Sir Agloval and of Morien and of his mother, and rode on their way till they came to King Arthur at Camelot, where he abode, as it pleased him well to do when he would fain be at peace.

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**Who acts:** Lancelot, king · **What happens:** not sir, remain, take, ride, come, abide · **To what, where:** leave, way, King Arthur, Camelot, peace

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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 (Lancelot, king), 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:pg8447:12:71
# text = And for this cause would not Sir Lancelot and Sir Gawain and Sir Perceval remain afar, but took their leave of Sir Agloval and of Morien and of his mother, and rode on their way till they came to King Arthur at Camelot, where he abode, as it pleased him well to do when he would fain be at peace.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	Sir	sir	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
16	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:desc	_	_
24	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Camelot	Camelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	49	advmod	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	abode	abide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	ccomp	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
55	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	57	advmod	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	advcl	_	_
58	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	61	advmod	_	_
59	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
60	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	fain	fain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	orphan	_	_
62	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	cop	_	_
63	at	at	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sir** | would |  |  |  |  |  | for this cause | tree rules |
| 2 | **remain** | present | Lancelot and Sir and Perceval  Sir |  |  |  |  | afar *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past |  | Lancelot's leave of Agloval  Sir and Morien and Sir's mother |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 4 | **ride** | past |  |  |  | Lancelot's way |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** | past | Lancelot |  | King Arthur | Camelot |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to arthur=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **abide** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **fain** | would | king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  | peace |  |  | 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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