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title: There might he fear no foe; the steed was so strong and so great, an… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: There might he fear no foe; the steed was so strong and so great, and even as his lord had need would the horse watch and follow every sign that he might give. Who acts: Gawain, steed, lord, need. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessi
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 49

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There might he fear no foe; the steed was so strong and so great, and even as his lord had need would the horse watch and follow every sign that he might give.

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**Who acts:** Gawain, steed, lord, need · **What happens:** fear, be, have, watch, follow, give · **To what, where:** foe, sign

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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, steed, lord, need), 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:pg8447:5:49
# text = There might he fear no foe; the steed was so strong and so great, and even as his lord had need would the horse watch and follow every sign that he might give.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
23	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | might | Gawain | no foe |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foe=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | the steed |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the steed *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | Gawain's lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **watch** | would | need |  |  |  |  | the horse *nsubj* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **follow** | infinitive | need *not said here* | every sign |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme |
| 7 | **give** | might | Gawain | every sign *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=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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