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title: Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot were both mounted upon their steeds. — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot were both mounted upon their steeds. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3, 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 3, sentence 74

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Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot were both mounted upon their steeds.

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**What happens:** mount · **To what, where:** Sir, steeds

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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 3. 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:pg8447:3:74
# text = Sir Gawain and Sir Lancelot were both mounted upon their steeds.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	both	both	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past · passive |  | Sir and Sir |  | father's steeds |  | both *property* | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon steed=Destination |

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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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