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title: Sir Gawain dismounted, whether he liked it well or ill, and let his… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Gawain dismounted, whether he liked it well or ill, and let his horse that men call the Gringalet, stand beside him; never a foot would that steed stir till its lord came, and once more laid hand on it. Who acts: Sir, men, horse, foot. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into Engl
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 40

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Sir Gawain dismounted, whether he liked it well or ill, and let his horse that men call the Gringalet, stand beside him; never a foot would that steed stir till its lord came, and once more laid hand on it.

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**Who acts:** Sir, men, horse, foot, lord · **What happens:** dismount, like, let, call, stand, not stir · **To what, where:** laid hand, sword, horse · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, men, horse, foot), 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:pg8447:5:40
# text = Sir Gawain dismounted, whether he liked it well or ill, and let his horse that men call the Gringalet, stand beside him; never a foot would that steed stir till its lord came, and once more laid hand on it.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	dismounted	dismount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl:relcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Gringalet	Gringalet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
24	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
32	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	stir	stir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
34	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	41	advmod	_	_
41	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	42	advmod	_	_
42	laid	laid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dismount** | past | Sir | laid hand on sword |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **like** | past | Sir | sword |  |  |  | well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | Sir *not said here* | Sir's horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | present | men | Sir's horse |  |  |  | the Gringalet *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
| 5 | **stand** | infinitive | Sir's horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside Sir | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location |
| 6 | **not** **stir** | would | a foot |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **come** | past | sword's lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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