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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 33

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Then said Sir Gawain he would fare in quest of Sir Lancelot who departed with him from court when he left King Arthur, since he might not well, for his honour, return without him.

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**Who acts:** Gawain, quest, Lancelot · **What happens:** say, fare, depart, leave, return, quest · **To what, where:** quest, court, King Arthur · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain, quest, Lancelot), 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:pg8447:9:33
# text = Then said Sir Gawain he would fare in quest of Sir Lancelot who departed with him from court when he left King Arthur, since he might not well, for his honour, return without him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	fare	fare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
22	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
36	without	without	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gawain  Sir |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fare** | would | Gawain |  |  | quest of Lancelot  Sir |  | Gawain's honour *parataxis*; well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **depart** | past | quest of Lancelot  Sir |  |  | court |  | with Gawain | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from court=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **leave** | past | Gawain | King Arthur |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arthur=Theme |
| 5 | **return** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | without Gawain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **quest** |  | Lancelot  Sir |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **honour** |  | Gawain |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «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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