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title: Further, said Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot, that they twain would rid… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Further, said Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot, that they twain would ride with them for honour and for good fellowship. Who acts: Gawain. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 44

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Further, said Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot, that they twain would ride with them for honour and for good fellowship.

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**Who acts:** Gawain · **What happens:** say, ride · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain), 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:pg8447:12:44
# text = Further, said Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot, that they twain would ride with them for honour and for good fellowship.
1	Further	further	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	fellowship	fellowship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gawain  Sir and Sir |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ride** | would | Gawain |  |  |  |  | with Perceval; for honour and good fellowship; twain *nsubj* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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