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title: Then thought Sir Gawain within himself, since he had so long wielded… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then thought Sir Gawain within himself, since he had so long wielded his weapons and no man durst withstand him further he might find no better counsel than to fare on his way. Who acts: Sir, weapons. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by J
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 64

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Then thought Sir Gawain within himself, since he had so long wielded his weapons and no man durst withstand him further he might find no better counsel than to fare on his way.

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**Who acts:** Sir, weapons · **What happens:** think, have, wield, withstand, find, fare · **To what, where:** Gawain, Sir, better counsel, way

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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, weapons), 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:pg8447:5:64
# text = Then thought Sir Gawain within himself, since he had so long wielded his weapons and no man durst withstand him further he might find no better counsel than to fare on his way.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	wielded	wield	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	durst	durst	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	withstand	withstand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	further	further	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	no	no	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	fare	fare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | Gawain  Sir |  |  | then | within Sir | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gawain=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wield** | past | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **withstand** | present | Sir's weapons and no man | Sir |  |  |  | durst *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | might | Sir | better counsel |  |  |  | further *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Topic |
| 6 | **fare** | to-infinitive | Sir *not said here* |  |  | Sir's way |  |  | tree rules |

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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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