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title: Am I a lesser or a weaker man than either of ye that Sir Gawain must… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Am I a lesser or a weaker man than either of ye that Sir Gawain must needs ride with me? Who acts: I, Gawain. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 55

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Am I a lesser or a weaker man than either of ye that Sir Gawain must needs ride with me?

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**Who acts:** I, Gawain · **What happens:** be, need · **To what, where:** ride

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Gawain), 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:pg8447:4:55
# text = Am I a lesser or a weaker man than either of ye that Sir Gawain must needs ride with me?
1	Am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lesser	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
18	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | than either of ye; a weaker man *conj*; less *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | must | Gawain  Sir | ride |  |  |  | with me | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ride=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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