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title: Thus they agreed together, and Sir Gariët rode alone till he came to… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus they agreed together, and Sir Gariët rode alone till he came to the ships, where he found a boat that pleased him well. Who acts: methinks, Sir. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9, with its dependen
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 65

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Thus they agreed together, and Sir Gariët rode alone till he came to the ships, where he found a boat that pleased him well.

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**Who acts:** methinks, Sir · **What happens:** agree, ride, come, find · **To what, where:** ships, 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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (methinks, Sir), 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:pg8447:9:65
# text = Thus they agreed together, and Sir Gariët rode alone till he came to the ships, where he found a boat that pleased him well.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Gariët	Gariët	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | methinks *= methink* |  |  |  |  | thus, together *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ride** | past | Sir |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | Sir |  |  | the ships |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ship=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **find** | past | Sir | a boat |  |  |  | well *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=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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