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title: Her prayers and entreaties, her tears and lamentations, would have s… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her prayers and entreaties, her tears and lamentations, would have stirred any man to pity; she cried upon Sir Gawain as he came riding into the plain, to come to her aid and fell the knight's pride. Who acts: stream, knight. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 90

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Her prayers and entreaties, her tears and lamentations, would have stirred any man to pity; she cried upon Sir Gawain as he came riding into the plain, to come to her aid and fell the knight's pride.

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**Who acts:** stream, knight · **What happens:** stir, pity, cry, come, ride, fall · **To what, where:** prayers, plain, aid, pride

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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 (stream, knight), 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:pg8447:4:90
# text = Her prayers and entreaties, her tears and lamentations, would have stirred any man to pity; she cried upon Sir Gawain as he came riding into the plain, to come to her aid and fell the knight's pride.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	stirred	stir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	pity	pity	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
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	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
27	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stir** | would · perfect · passive |  | stream's prayers and entreaties and stream's tears and lamentations |  |  |  | any man *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer man=Result |
| 2 | **pity** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | stream |  |  |  |  | upon Sir | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sir=Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **ride** | gerund | knight *not said here* |  |  | the plain |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into plain=Trajectory |
| 6 | **come** | to-infinitive | knight *not said here* |  |  | stream's aid |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **fall** | past | stream *not said here* | the knight's pride |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient pride=Result |
| 8 | **pray** |  | stream |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **pride** |  | the knight |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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