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description: Their host quoth straightway, "He that had a boat at his will and a favouring wind might be there ere even." Who acts: host, Sir, favouring wind. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8, with its dependency t
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 92

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Their host quoth straightway, "He that had a boat at his will and a favouring wind might be there ere even."

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**Who acts:** host, Sir, favouring wind · **What happens:** quoth, have, favour, be · **To what, where:** straightway, boat

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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 (host, Sir, favouring wind), 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:pg8447:8:92
# text = Their host quoth straightway, "He that had a boat at his will and a favouring wind might be there ere even."
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	quoth	quoth	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	favouring	favour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	conj	_	_
22	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quoth** | present | tidings's host | straightway |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Sir | a boat |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |
| 3 | **favour** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | might | a favouring wind |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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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