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title: Straightway the seneschal betook him to a fair chamber (hearken ye t… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Straightway the seneschal betook him to a fair chamber (hearken ye to an evil tale!) where he found Sir Gawain's weapons and his good armour. Who acts: Straightway seneschal, seneschal. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 60

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Straightway the seneschal betook him to a fair chamber (hearken ye to an evil tale!) where he found Sir Gawain's weapons and his good armour.

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**Who acts:** Straightway seneschal, seneschal · **What happens:** betake, hearken, find · **To what, where:** bade, ye, weapons

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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 (Straightway seneschal, seneschal), 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:pg8447:6:60
# text = Straightway the seneschal betook him to a fair chamber (hearken ye to an evil tale!) where he found Sir Gawain's weapons and his good armour.
1	Straightway	Straightway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	seneschal	seneschal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	betook	betake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
22	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **betake** | past | the Straightway seneschal | bade |  |  |  | to a fair chamber | tree rules |
| 2 | **hearken** | infinitive | the Straightway seneschal *not said here* | ye |  |  |  | to a evil tale | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past | seneschal | Gawain  Sir's weapons and seneschal's good armour |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Topic |

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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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