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title: 22825) where Gawain instructs the physician as to the proper treatme… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: 22825) where Gawain instructs the physician as to the proper treatment of Lancelot's wounds; and the _Parzival_ of Wolfram von Eschenbach (Book X. Who acts: Gawain, Lancelot. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Amen. Not
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 12

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22825) where Gawain instructs the physician as to the proper treatment of Lancelot's wounds; and the \_Parzival\_ of Wolfram von Eschenbach (Book X.

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**Who acts:** Gawain, Lancelot · **What happens:** instruct, treat, wound · **To what, where:** physician, 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, Amen. Notes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain, Lancelot), 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:pg8447:13:12
# text = 22825) where Gawain instructs the physician as to the proper treatment of Lancelot's wounds; and the _Parzival_ of Wolfram von Eschenbach (Book X.
1	22825	22825	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
4	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	instructs	instruct	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Parzival	Parzival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Wolfram	Wolfram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
25	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	24	flat	_	_
26	Eschenbach	Eschenbach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	X	X	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **instruct** *speech: other* | present | Gawain | the physician |  |  |  | as the proper treatment of Lancelot's wounds; Wolfram Book X  the Parzival *obl* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent physician=Recipient |
| 2 | **treat** |  |  | Lancelot's wounds |  |  |  |  | nom treatment «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **wound** |  | Lancelot |  |  |  |  |  | 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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