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title: Sir Gawain, the good and the valiant, was once more mounted upon Gri… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Gawain, the good and the valiant, was once more mounted upon Gringalet. 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 48

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Sir Gawain, the good and the valiant, was once more mounted upon Gringalet.

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**What happens:** mount · **To what, where:** Gawain

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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: 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:pg8447:5:48
# text = Sir Gawain, the good and the valiant, was once more mounted upon Gringalet.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	valiant	valiant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Gringalet	Gringalet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past · passive |  | Gawain  Sir |  |  |  | upon Gringalet; once *property* | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon gringalet=Destination |

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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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