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title: Sir Gawain was of a mind to bring him to Sir Lancelot ere he made te… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Gawain was of a mind to bring him to Sir Lancelot ere he made terms with him. Who acts: Gawain, mind, Sir. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 16

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Sir Gawain was of a mind to bring him to Sir Lancelot ere he made terms with him.

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**Who acts:** Gawain, mind, Sir · **What happens:** be, bring, ere, make · **To what, where:** Sir, terms

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain, mind, 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:pg8447:11:16
# text = Sir Gawain was of a mind to bring him to Sir Lancelot ere he made terms with him.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	ere	ere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Gawain  Sir |  |  |  |  | of a mind | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | to-infinitive | a mind *not said here* | Sir | Sir |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to sir=Destination |
| 3 | **ere** | past | a mind |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past | Sir | terms |  |  |  | with mind | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Product |

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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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