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description: The while they thus made ready came the lord of the castle to Sir Gawain, and said: "Ye are early astir Sir Knight; how comes it that ye be thus hurried at this time? Who acts: hand, while, Ye. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 67

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The while they thus made ready came the lord of the castle to Sir Gawain, and said: "Ye are early astir Sir Knight; how comes it that ye be thus hurried at this time?

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**Who acts:** hand, while, Ye · **What happens:** make, come, say, be, hurry · **To what, where:** while, castle, that · **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 (hand, while, Ye), 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:pg8447:6:67
# text = The while they thus made ready came the lord of the castle to Sir Gawain, and said: "Ye are early astir Sir Knight; how comes it that ye be thus hurried at this time?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	astir	astir	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
25	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
29	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
34	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | hand | the while *not said here* |  |  |  | ready, thus *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset while=Product |
| 2 | **come** | past | the while |  |  |  |  | the lord of the castle to Sir *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Ye |  |  |  |  | Sir Knight *conj*; astir, early *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | present |  | castle |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 6 | **hurry** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | that |  |  | time | ye *nsubj:pass*; thus *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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