--- title: Sir Gawain rode swiftly after the maiden who went afore, whom the kn… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Sir Gawain rode swiftly after the maiden who went afore, whom the knight thus mishandled, to avenge her wrong; and as he drew near so that she might see him, she smote her hands together more than before, and cried to Gawain, "Noble knight, for the honour of womanhood, save me! Who acts: Sir, maiden --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/4/87/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/) / [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/4/) / 87 # Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 87 Sir Gawain rode swiftly after the maiden who went afore, whom the knight thus mishandled, to avenge her wrong; and as he drew near so that she might see him, she smote her hands together more than before, and cried to Gawain, "Noble knight, for the honour of womanhood, save me! **Who acts:** Sir, maiden, knight, stream · **What happens:** ride, go, mishandle, avenge, draw, see · **To what, where:** maiden, wrong, Sir, hands, Noble knight, Gawain · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, maiden, knight, stream), 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:pg8447:4:87 # text = Sir Gawain rode swiftly after the maiden who went afore, whom the knight thus mishandled, to avenge her wrong; and as he drew near so that she might see him, she smote her hands together more than before, and cried to Gawain, "Noble knight, for the honour of womanhood, save me! 1 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Gawain Gawain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 swiftly swiftly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 afore afore ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 thus thus ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 mishandled mishandle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 avenge avenge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 near near ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 32 mark _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 smote smite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 together together ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 40 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 obj _ _ 41 than than ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 before before ADV RB _ 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 Gawain Gawain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 " " PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 Noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 for for ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 womanhood womanhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 59 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 conj _ _ 60 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 59 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ride** | past | Sir | | | | after the maiden | swiftly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go** | past | the maiden | | | | | afore *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mishandle** | past | the knight | the maiden | | | | thus *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | | 4 | **avenge** | to-infinitive | the knight *not said here* | stream's wrong | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **draw** | past | Sir | | | | | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **see** | might | stream | Sir | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 7 | **smite** | past | stream | stream's hands | | | | together *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer more=Result | | 8 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | | Noble knight | Gawain | | | for the honour of womanhood | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to gawain=Recipient | | 9 | **save** *in a quote* | infinitive | | me | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 10 | **honour** *in a quote* | | | womanhood | | | | | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient | 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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/4/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/4/88/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/4/)