Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 68

"Dear son," quoth Sir Agloval, "then did my brother cease his quest for the Spear and the Grail, and the adventure on which he was bound, and came hither as swiftly as he might to mine uncle the hermit, and clothed himself in this habit, through that which the clerk foretold me.

Who acts: Dear son, adventure, clerk, son · What happens: quoth, do, cease, be, come, clothe · To what, where: Sir, brother, quest, uncle, son, habit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear son, adventure, clerk, son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quoth	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 quoth	punct
6	quoth	quoth	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 quoth	obj
8	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Sir	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 quoth	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 quoth	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 did	advmod
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quoth	advcl
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brother	nmod:poss
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 did	obj
15	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 did	xcomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 quest	nmod:poss
17	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cease	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 Spear	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Spear	det
20	Spear	Spear	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 quest	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Grail	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Grail	det
23	Grail	grail	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Spear	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bound	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bound	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 adventure	det
27	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bound	nsubj
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 bound	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bound	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 bound	cop
32	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quoth	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 came	cc
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 bound	parataxis
36	hither	hither	ADV	_	35 came	advmod
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 swiftly	advmod
38	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	44 uncle	advmod
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 might	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 might	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 uncle	aux
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 mine	case
43	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 might	obl
44	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	obl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 hermit	det
46	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 uncle	nmod:unmarked
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 clothed	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 clothed	cc
49	clothed	clothe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 came	conj
50	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	49 clothed	obj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 habit	case
52	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 habit	det
53	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 clothed	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 clerk	punct
55	through	through	ADP	_	59 clerk	case
56	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	59 clerk	nsubj
57	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 clerk	nsubj
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 clerk	det
59	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 clothed	obl
60	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 clerk	acl
61	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 foretold	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 quoth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quoth	infinitive	Dear son	Sir				tree rules
2	do in a quote	past	Dear son not said here	my brother		then		tree rules
3	cease in a quote	infinitive	Dear son not said here	son's quest			for the Spear and the Grail	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality quest=Eventuality
4	is in a quote	past	the adventure				which obl; son nsubj; bound property	tree rules
5	come in a quote	past		uncle the hermit			hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	clothe in a quote	past		son	this habit		through the clerk that	vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
7	foretell in a quote	participle	the clerk that not said here	door				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
8	quest in a quote		son				for the Spear and the Grail	nom quest «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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.

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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 68

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 68