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title: The adventure doeth us to wit that when Sir Morien and Sir Gariët ha… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The adventure doeth us to wit that when Sir Morien and Sir Gariët had parted from Sir Gawain, they rode once more to the crossways, for they had made a compact that they should not part before that they had found his father, Sir Agloval. Who acts: adventure, adventures. A sentence of «Morien: A Metr
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 50

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The adventure doeth us to wit that when Sir Morien and Sir Gariët had parted from Sir Gawain, they rode once more to the crossways, for they had made a compact that they should not part before that they had found his father, Sir Agloval.

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**Who acts:** adventure, adventures · **What happens:** do, wit, part, ride, make, not part · **To what, where:** us, Sir, crossways, compact, father

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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 (adventure, adventures), 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:pg8447:9:50
# text = The adventure doeth us to wit that when Sir Morien and Sir Gariët had parted from Sir Gawain, they rode once more to the crossways, for they had made a compact that they should not part before that they had found his father, Sir Agloval.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	doeth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	wit	wit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
9	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	Gariët	Gariët	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	advmod	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	crossways	crossway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	compact	compact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	acl:relcl	_	_
39	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
48	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | the adventure | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wit** | to-infinitive | the adventure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **part** | past · perfect · passive |  | Sir and Sir |  |  |  | from Sir | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from sir=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **ride** | past | adventures *= adventure* |  |  | the crossways |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to crossway=Trajectory |
| 5 | **make** | past · perfect | adventures *= adventure* | a compact |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset compact=Product |
| 6 | **not** **part** | should | adventures *= adventure* | a compact *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **find** | past · perfect | adventures *= adventure* | Sir's father |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic |

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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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