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title: Then King Arthur cried aloud that all might hear him, that the knigh… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then King Arthur cried aloud that all might hear him, that the knight was surely none other than Sir Perceval. Who acts: King Arthur, all, knight. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2, with its dependency 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 29

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Then King Arthur cried aloud that all might hear him, that the knight was surely none other than Sir Perceval.

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**Who acts:** King Arthur, all, knight · **What happens:** cry, hear, be · **To what, where:** Arthur, none

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King Arthur, all, knight), 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:pg8447:2:29
# text = Then King Arthur cried aloud that all might hear him, that the knight was surely none other than Sir Perceval.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
8	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	4	obl	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | King Arthur |  |  |  | then | aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | might | all | Arthur |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the knight | none |  |  |  | surely *property* | 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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