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title: Sir Gawain, Sir Perceval, and Sir Lancelot smote many to death, and… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Gawain, Sir Perceval, and Sir Lancelot smote many to death, and came even to the king's tents, and seized their weapons, shields, and spears, ere his folk might come at their arms. Who acts: Sir, spears, folk. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæva
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 9

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Sir Gawain, Sir Perceval, and Sir Lancelot smote many to death, and came even to the king's tents, and seized their weapons, shields, and spears, ere his folk might come at their arms.

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**Who acts:** Sir, spears, folk · **What happens:** smite, come, seize, ere · **To what, where:** many, tents, weapons, arms, Gawain

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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, spears, folk), 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:pg8447:12:9
# text = Sir Gawain, Sir Perceval, and Sir Lancelot smote many to death, and came even to the king's tents, and seized their weapons, shields, and spears, ere his folk might come at their arms.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	ere	ere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | past | Sir | many |  |  |  | to death *result* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent many=Patient to death=Result |
| 2 | **come** | past | Sir *not said here* |  |  | the king's tents |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tent=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **seize** | past |  | strokes's weapons and shields |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme |
| 4 | **ere** | past | spears |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | might | Sir's folk |  |  | strokes's arms |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at arm=Location |

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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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