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description: Now hath my lady the queen taken counsel, and sent messengers far and near into every land to seek ye and Lancelot in this her sore need. Who acts: queen, Lady. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8, with i
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 74

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Now hath my lady the queen taken counsel, and sent messengers far and near into every land to seek ye and Lancelot in this her sore need.

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**Who acts:** queen, Lady · **What happens:** have, take, send, seek, need · **To what, where:** lady, counsel, messengers, land, ye, sore need

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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 (queen, Lady), 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:pg8447:8:74
# text = Now hath my lady the queen taken counsel, and sent messengers far and near into every land to seek ye and Lancelot in this her sore need.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	near	near	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
21	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | my lady |  |  | now | the queen *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | participle | the queen *not said here* | counsel |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past |  | messengers |  | every land |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive |  | ye  Lancelot |  | Lady's sore need  this |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ye=Theme in need=Location |
| 5 | **need** |  | Lady |  |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: poss=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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