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title: After this manner also spake Sir Lancelot, and all who were in the h… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: After this manner also spake Sir Lancelot, and all who were in the hall took up the word of Sir Gawain, and praised Perceval. Who acts: all, hall. 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 51

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After this manner also spake Sir Lancelot, and all who were in the hall took up the word of Sir Gawain, and praised Perceval.

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**Who acts:** all, hall · **What happens:** be, take up, praise, word · **To what, where:** hall, word, Perceval, Sir

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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 (all, hall), 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:pg8447:2:51
# text = After this manner also spake Sir Lancelot, and all who were in the hall took up the word of Sir Gawain, and praised Perceval.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	spake	speak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all |  |  | the hall |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take up** | past | the hall | the word of Sir |  |  | after this manner  spake Sir |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **praise** | past | the hall *not said here* | Perceval |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perceval=Theme |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | Sir |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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