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title: Of him have I asked many, this long while past; I have ridden hither… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of him have I asked many, this long while past; I have ridden hither and thither this half year, and here and there have I sought him. Who acts: Gawain, I. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3, with its de
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 18

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Of him have I asked many, this long while past; I have ridden hither and thither this half year, and here and there have I sought him.

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**Who acts:** Gawain, I · **What happens:** have, ask, ride, seek · **To what, where:** many, Gawain

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain, I), 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:pg8447:3:18
# text = Of him have I asked many, this long while past; I have ridden hither and thither this half year, and here and there have I sought him.
1	Of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	16	conj	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	21	compound	_	_
21	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	conj	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Gawain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | I | many |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent many=Recipient |
| 3 | **ride** | present · perfect | I |  |  | here; thither; there | year | hither *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **seek** | past | I | Gawain |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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