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title: The Middle English poem of _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_ (No. 1… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Middle English poem of _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_ (No. 1 of this Series) speaks of the knight in somewhat similar terms as "the fine father of courtesy." Who acts: English poem. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Wes
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 25

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The Middle English poem of \_Sir Gawain and the Green Knight\_ (No. 1 of this Series) speaks of the knight in somewhat similar terms as "the fine father of courtesy."

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**Who acts:** English poem · **What happens:** speak · **To what, where:** similar terms · **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, Amen. Notes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (English poem), 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:pg8447:13:25
# text = The Middle English poem of _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_ (No. 1 of this Series) speaks of the knight in somewhat similar terms as "the fine father of courtesy."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
16	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	Series	Series	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
21	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | the English poem of \_ Gawain  Sir and the Green Knight |  |  | similar terms |  | of the knight; as the fine father of courtesy | vn talk-37.5 «NP 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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