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title: Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot took up the word and said: "He who faile… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot took up the word and said: "He who faileth his king 'tis right that men speak shame of him thereafter throughout the world. Who acts: Sir, men. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, par
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 64

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Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot took up the word and said: "He who faileth his king 'tis right that men speak shame of him thereafter throughout the world.

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**Who acts:** Sir, men · **What happens:** take up, say, fail, speak, shame · **To what, where:** word, king, shame, Sir · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, men), 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:pg8447:11:64
# text = Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot took up the word and said: "He who faileth his king 'tis right that men speak shame of him thereafter throughout the world.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	faileth	fail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tis	tis	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
29	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | past | Sir and Sir | the word |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sir and Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fail** *in a quote* | present | Sir | Sir's king |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | men | shame of Sir |  |  | throughout the world | thereafter *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **shame** *in a quote* |  |  | Sir |  |  |  |  | nom shame «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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