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title: Sir Gariët answered and said, "That ye vex yourselves thus to seek h… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Gariët answered and said, "That ye vex yourselves thus to seek him, 'tis labour lost, for tidings have come to court that Perceval hath become hermit, and doeth penance for his sins. Who acts: Sir, That, tidings, Perceval. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose fro
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 83

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Sir Gariët answered and said, "That ye vex yourselves thus to seek him, 'tis labour lost, for tidings have come to court that Perceval hath become hermit, and doeth penance for his sins.

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**Who acts:** Sir, That, tidings, Perceval · **What happens:** answer, say, vex, seek, lose, come · **To what, where:** yourselves, Sir, tis labour, hermit, penance · **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 (Sir, That, tidings, Perceval), 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:pg8447:8:83
# text = Sir Gariët answered and said, "That ye vex yourselves thus to seek him, 'tis labour lost, for tidings have come to court that Perceval hath become hermit, and doeth penance for his sins.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Gariët	Gariët	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	vex	vex	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
11	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
31	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
32	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	doeth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	penance	penance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **vex** *in a quote* | present | That | yourselves |  |  |  | ye *nsubj*; thus *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourselves=Experiencer |
| 4 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | That *not said here* | Sir |  |  |  | tis labour *conj* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** *in a quote* | participle |  | tis labour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | tidings |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Perceval |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **become** *in a quote* | present | tidings *not said here* | hermit |  |  |  | to court | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **do** *in a quote* | present | Sir *not said here* | penance |  |  |  | for Sir's sins | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penance=Eventuality |

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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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