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title: When Sir Gawain came to the other side of the river, which was both… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Sir Gawain came to the other side of the river, which was both wide and deep, then saw he a great company of folk riding after the knight who bare away the maiden by force, and thus misused her, but he wist not if it was to aid the knight that they thus followed him, or to wreak vengeance on hi
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 85

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When Sir Gawain came to the other side of the river, which was both wide and deep, then saw he a great company of folk riding after the knight who bare away the maiden by force, and thus misused her, but he wist not if it was to aid the knight that they thus followed him, or to wreak vengeance on him.

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**Who acts:** Sir, river, twas · **What happens:** come, be, see, bare, misuse, not wist · **To what, where:** other side, Sir, stream, knight, vengeance

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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 (Sir, river, twas), 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:pg8447:4:85
# text = When Sir Gawain came to the other side of the river, which was both wide and deep, then saw he a great company of folk riding after the knight who bare away the maiden by force, and thus misused her, but he wist not if it was to aid the knight that they thus followed him, or to wreak vengeance on him.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	both	both	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	bare	bare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	misused	misuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
43	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	wist	wist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
49	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	aid	aid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	advcl	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
57	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	advcl	_	_
60	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
62	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
63	to	to	PART	TO	_	64	mark	_	_
64	wreak	wreak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	conj	_	_
65	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obj	_	_
66	on	on	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Sir |  |  | the other side of the river |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | the river |  |  |  |  | both, wide *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the river *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past |  | Sir |  |  | then | a great company of folk riding *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bare** | present |  |  |  |  | after the knight | who *nsubj*; maiden *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **misuse** | past |  | stream |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **wist** | present | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | river |  |  |  |  | the knight *obj*; aid *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **follow** | past | twas *= twa* | knight |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 10 | **wreak** | to-infinitive | river *not said here* | vengeance |  |  |  | on Sir | tree rules |

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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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