--- title: To which particular adventure of Lancelot this refers it is not easy… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: To which particular adventure of Lancelot this refers it is not easy to decide; on more than one occasion he disappears from court, and the knights headed by Gawain, ride in quest of him. Who acts: this, Gawain, knights. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/) / [Amen. Notes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/) / 30 # Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 30 To which particular adventure of Lancelot this refers it is not easy to decide; on more than one occasion he disappears from court, and the knights headed by Gawain, ride in quest of him. **Who acts:** this, Gawain, knights · **What happens:** refer, not be, decide, disappear, head, ride · **To what, where:** one occasion, knights, quest, Lancelot 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 (this, Gawain, knights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:13:30 # text = To which particular adventure of Lancelot this refers it is not easy to decide; on more than one occasion he disappears from court, and the knights headed by Gawain, ride in quest of him. 1 To to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 3 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 adventure adventure NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Lancelot Lancelot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 nsubj _ _ 8 refers refer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 expl _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 19 advmod _ _ 18 than than ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 occasion occasion NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 disappears disappear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 29 headed head VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Gawain Gawain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 33 ride ride VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 quest quest NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refer** | present | this | | | | | to particular adventure of Lancelot | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to adventure=Co-Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | this *not said here* | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **decide** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **disappear** | present | Gawain | | | one occasion | | from court | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from court=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **head** | participle | | the knights *not said here* | | | | Gawain *obl:agent* | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **ride** | present | the knights | | | quest of Gawain | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **adventure** | | | Lancelot | | | | | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **quest** | | Gawain | | | | | | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/31/) - ↑ back to [Amen. Notes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/)