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title: Gawain was from the first the adventurous hero, _par excellence_ of… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gawain was from the first the adventurous hero, _par excellence_ of the cycle, but I know no other instance in which this characteristic is so quaintly and forcibly expressed. Who acts: Gawain, I, characteristic. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 26

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Gawain was from the first the adventurous hero, \_par excellence\_ of the cycle, but I know no other instance in which this characteristic is so quaintly and forcibly expressed.

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**Who acts:** Gawain, I, characteristic · **What happens:** be, know · **To what, where:** first adventurous hero, other instance

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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 (Gawain, I, characteristic), 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:pg8447:13:26
# text = Gawain was from the first the adventurous hero, _par excellence_ of the cycle, but I know no other instance in which this characteristic is so quaintly and forcibly expressed.
1	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	adventurous	adventurous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	par	par	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	excellence	excellence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	quaintly	quaintly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	forcibly	forcibly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Gawain | the first adventurous hero and par excellence of the cycle |  |  |  | par excellence of the cycle *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | I | no other instance |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer instance=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | this characteristic |  |  | no other instance |  | express, forcibly, quaintly *property* | tree rules |

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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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