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title: The host bade them take in ward Sir Gawain's armour and his sword; t… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The host bade them take in ward Sir Gawain's armour and his sword; too far did they carry them! Who acts: words. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 85

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The host bade them take in ward Sir Gawain's armour and his sword; too far did they carry them!

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**Who acts:** words · **What happens:** take, carry · **To what, where:** host bade, ward, laws

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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:pg8447:5:85
# text = The host bade them take in ward Sir Gawain's armour and his sword; too far did they carry them!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ward	ward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
11	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | words *= word* | the host bade |  | ward |  | Sir's armour and Sir's sword *obj* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent armour=Value in ward=Location |
| 2 | **carry** | past · do-support | words *= word* | laws *= law* |  |  |  | far *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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