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title: Now have I no knight so valiant of mind that for my sake will seek P… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now have I no knight so valiant of mind that for my sake will seek Perceval and bring him to court. Who acts: I, valiant. 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 tree and the pragmatics o
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 33

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Now have I no knight so valiant of mind that for my sake will seek Perceval and bring him to court.

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**Who acts:** I, valiant · **What happens:** have, knight, seek, bring · **To what, where:** that, knight, court

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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 (I, valiant), 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:pg8447:2:33
# text = Now have I no knight so valiant of mind that for my sake will seek Perceval and bring him to court.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
7	valiant	valiant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **knight** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seek** | future | valiant of mind | that |  |  |  | for my sake; Perceval *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive | valiant of mind *not said here* | knight |  | court |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to court=Destination |

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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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