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title: This Sir Gawain deemed a great marvel. — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: This Sir Gawain deemed a great marvel. Who acts: Gawain. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 44

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This Sir Gawain deemed a great marvel.

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**Who acts:** Gawain · **What happens:** deem · **To what, where:** great marvel

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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 (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:pg8447:5:44
# text = This Sir Gawain deemed a great marvel.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	deemed	deem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	marvel	marvel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deem** | past | Gawain  This  Sir | a great marvel |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent marvel=Attribute |

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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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