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title: They belong to the Round Table, and have done so of long time; both… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: They belong to the Round Table, and have done so of long time; both are of the king's court, and knights of high renown. Who acts: knight, both. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tr
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 54

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They belong to the Round Table, and have done so of long time; both are of the king's court, and knights of high renown.

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**Who acts:** knight, both · **What happens:** belong, do, be

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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 (knight, both), 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:pg8447:3:54
# text = They belong to the Round Table, and have done so of long time; both are of the king's court, and knights of high renown.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Round	Round	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Table	Table	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	renown	renown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | knight |  |  |  |  | to the Round Table | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive · perfect | knight *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | both |  |  |  |  | of the king's court and knights of high renown; the king *nmod:poss*; knights of high renown *conj* | 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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