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description: Then thought Sir Gawain with himself, "We were foolish and unwise an we failed to show courtesy to one who praises us so highly." Who acts: We. 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 tre
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 8

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Then thought Sir Gawain with himself, "We were foolish and unwise an we failed to show courtesy to one who praises us so highly."

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** think, be, fail, not show, praise · **To what, where:** Gawain, courtesy, us · **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, 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 (We), 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:pg8447:3:8
# text = Then thought Sir Gawain with himself, "We were foolish and unwise an we failed to show courtesy to one who praises us so highly."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	unwise	unwise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	ccomp	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	praises	praise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | Gawain  Sir |  |  | then | with Sir | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gawain=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | We |  |  |  |  | foolish *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* |  | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fail** *in a quote* | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **show** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | courtesy |  |  |  | one *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent courtesy=Recipient |
| 6 | **praise** *in a quote* | present |  | us |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; highly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |

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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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