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description: In such quest must another ride would I be comforted by the coming of this knight!" Who acts: 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 45

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In such quest must another ride would I be comforted by the coming of this knight!"

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**Who acts:** knight · **What happens:** comfort, come · **To what, where:** ride, such quest

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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 (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:pg8447:2:45
# text = In such quest must another ride would I be comforted by the coming of this knight!"
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comfort** | would · passive | the knight | another ride |  | such quest |  | I *nsubj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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