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title: Thus they rode both together, for Morien sware an oath that, would S… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus they rode both together, for Morien sware an oath that, would Sir Gariët ride with him, he would e'en pray his uncle and his father to come to the aid of the queen, King Arthur's wife, and help her to win back her land. Who acts: adventures, Sir, e'en. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 51

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Thus they rode both together, for Morien sware an oath that, would Sir Gariët ride with him, he would e'en pray his uncle and his father to come to the aid of the queen, King Arthur's wife, and help her to win back her land.

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**Who acts:** adventures, Sir, e'en · **What happens:** ride, pray, come, help, win back · **To what, where:** oath, uncle, aid, e'en, land

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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 (adventures, Sir, e'en), 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:pg8447:9:51
# text = Thus they rode both together, for Morien sware an oath that, would Sir Gariët ride with him, he would e'en pray his uncle and his father to come to the aid of the queen, King Arthur's wife, and help her to win back her land.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	both	both	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sware	sware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Gariët	Gariët	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	e'en	e'en	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
46	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
49	back	back	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | adventures *= adventure* | a oath |  |  |  | for Morien sware; both, thus, together *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ride** | would | Sir | a oath |  |  |  | with Gawain | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **pray** | would | Sir | Sir's uncle and Sir's father |  |  |  | e'en *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | Sir *not said here* |  |  | the aid of the queen and King Arthur's wife |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **help** | infinitive | adventures *= adventure* *not said here* | e'en |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 6 | **win back** | to-infinitive | e'en *not said here* | e'en's land |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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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