--- title: Sir Gawain raised him up, but the Moor laid his hands together and s… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Sir Gawain raised him up, but the Moor laid his hands together and spake, "God the Father of all, and Ruler of the World, grant that I may amend my misdoing to your honour. Who acts: Sir, Moor, grant, your. 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Weston, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, Moor, grant, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:3:71 # text = Sir Gawain raised him up, but the Moor laid his hands together and spake, "God the Father of all, and Ruler of the World, grant that I may amend my misdoing to your honour. 1 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Gawain Gawain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Moor moor NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 together together ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 spake speak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 Ruler Ruler PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 grant grant NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 amend amend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 misdoing misdoing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **raise up** | past | Sir | Moor | | | | God and Ruler of the World *parataxis* | tree rules | | 2 | **lay** | past | the Moor | Moor's hands | | | | together *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result | | 3 | **amend** *in a quote* | may | grant | my misdoing | | | | to your honour; I *nsubj* | tree rules | | 4 | **honour** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/72/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/)