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title: Sir Gawain took counsel with his comrades, and this was their rede,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Gawain took counsel with his comrades, and this was their rede, that they must bring King Arthur there before their eyes ere they might make terms for their lord, the king. " Who acts: Sir, this, comrades. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Du
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 27

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Sir Gawain took counsel with his comrades, and this was their rede, that they must bring King Arthur there before their eyes ere they might make terms for their lord, the king. "

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**Who acts:** Sir, this, comrades · **What happens:** take, be, bring, make · **To what, where:** counsel, rede, King Arthur, eyes, 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, this, comrades), 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:pg8447:12:27
# text = Sir Gawain took counsel with his comrades, and this was their rede, that they must bring King Arthur there before their eyes ere they might make terms for their lord, the king. "
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	rede	rede	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
25	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
29	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Sir | counsel |  |  |  | with Sir's comrades | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this | comrades's rede |  |  |  | comrades *= comrade* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | must | comrades *= comrade* | King Arthur |  | comrades's eyes; there |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arthur=Theme before eye=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | might | comrades *= comrade* | terms |  |  |  | for comrades's lord; ere *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent term=Product for lord=Beneficiary |

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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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