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description: As he spake thus, Sir Gawain made no more ado but smote off the traitor's head. Who acts: 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 clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 19

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As he spake thus, Sir Gawain made no more ado but smote off the traitor's head.

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**Who acts:** Sir · **What happens:** make, smite · **To what, where:** more ado

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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 (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:pg8447:11:19
# text = As he spake thus, Sir Gawain made no more ado but smote off the traitor's head.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	no	no	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	ado	ado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Sir | more ado |  |  |  | as spake  Sir | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ado=Product |
| 2 | **smite** | past | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | off the traitor's head | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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