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title: He bade them bear tapers before them, and all that he knew or could… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: He bade them bear tapers before them, and all that he knew or could in any wise deem needful for Sir Gawain, his guest. Who acts: lord, wise. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 28

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He bade them bear tapers before them, and all that he knew or could in any wise deem needful for Sir Gawain, his guest.

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**Who acts:** lord, wise · **What happens:** bade, bear, know, deem · **To what, where:** beds, tapers, guest · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord, wise), 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:pg8447:6:28
# text = He bade them bear tapers before them, and all that he knew or could in any wise deem needful for Sir Gawain, his guest.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	tapers	taper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
19	deem	deem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
20	needful	needful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | lord | beds *= bed* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | infinitive | lord *not said here* | tapers |  |  | before beds *= bed* |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taper=Patient |
| 3 | **know** | past | lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **deem** | infinitive | any wise | lord's guest |  |  |  | needful *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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