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title: Morien's heart was set upon following his father, and Sir Gawain was… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Morien's heart was set upon following his father, and Sir Gawain was of a mind to ride in quest of Sir Lancelot, and learn how it had fared with him. Who acts: Gawain, Sir. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, pa
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 27

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Morien's heart was set upon following his father, and Sir Gawain was of a mind to ride in quest of Sir Lancelot, and learn how it had fared with him.

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**Who acts:** Gawain, Sir · **What happens:** set, follow, be, ride, learn, fare · **To what, where:** heart, father, quest · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain, Sir), 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:pg8447:8:27
# text = Morien's heart was set upon following his father, and Sir Gawain was of a mind to ride in quest of Sir Lancelot, and learn how it had fared with him.
1	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	fared	fare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	ccomp	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · passive |  | Morien's heart |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  | heart's father |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Gawain  Sir |  |  |  |  | of a mind | tree rules |
| 4 | **ride** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | quest of Sir |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **learn** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **fare** | past · perfect · passive |  | quest |  |  |  | with heart | tree rules |
| 7 | **quest** |  | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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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