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title: The adventure telleth us forthwith that when prime was now already p… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The adventure telleth us forthwith that when prime was now already past Sir Gawain came to a wide and deep river. ' Who acts: adventure, prime. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tre
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 71

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The adventure telleth us forthwith that when prime was now already past Sir Gawain came to a wide and deep river. '

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**Who acts:** adventure, prime · **What happens:** tell, be · **To what, where:** us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventure, prime), 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:pg8447:4:71
# text = The adventure telleth us forthwith that when prime was now already past Sir Gawain came to a wide and deep river. '
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	telleth	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	forthwith	forthwith	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
8	prime	prime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
11	already	already	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	past	past	ADP	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the adventure |  | us |  |  | forthwith *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | prime |  |  |  | now | to a wide river; Gawain  Sir *nsubj*; come *property* | 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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