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title: Therefore stood Sir Gawain still, as one who had no mind to fight, n… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore stood Sir Gawain still, as one who had no mind to fight, nor to break the laws of courtesy. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 85

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Therefore stood Sir Gawain still, as one who had no mind to fight, nor to break the laws of courtesy.

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**What happens:** stand, have, fight, break · **To what, where:** Sir, mind, laws

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8447:2:86
# text = Therefore stood Sir Gawain still, as one who had no mind to fight, nor to break the laws of courtesy.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | Sir |  |  | still | therefore *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sir=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | no mind |  |  |  | as one; who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive |  | no mind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **break** | to-infinitive |  | the laws of courtesy |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient |

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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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