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title: Now when Sir Gawain had won the fight, and God had shown him favour… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when Sir Gawain had won the fight, and God had shown him favour by granting him good knighthood and the discomfiting of his foes, the day was well past nones, and Sir Gawain, the bold, had neither eaten nor drunk, nor done aught save fight that day and receive great blows. Who acts: Sir, God, da
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 67

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Now when Sir Gawain had won the fight, and God had shown him favour by granting him good knighthood and the discomfiting of his foes, the day was well past nones, and Sir Gawain, the bold, had neither eaten nor drunk, nor done aught save fight that day and receive great blows.

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**Who acts:** Sir, God, day, aught · **What happens:** win, show, grant, discomfit, be, eat · **To what, where:** fight, favour, Sir, good knighthood, Gawain, great blows

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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, God, day, aught), 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:pg8447:5:67
# text = Now when Sir Gawain had won the fight, and God had shown him favour by granting him good knighthood and the discomfiting of his foes, the day was well past nones, and Sir Gawain, the bold, had neither eaten nor drunk, nor done aught save fight that day and receive great blows.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	granting	grant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	knighthood	knighthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	discomfiting	discomfit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
32	past	past	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	nones	none	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
36	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:desc	_	_
37	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	bold	bold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
45	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	46	cc	_	_
46	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	50	cc	_	_
49	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	amod	_	_
50	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	51	nsubj	_	_
51	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
52	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
53	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	54	det	_	_
54	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl:unmarked	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	receive	receive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
57	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past · perfect | Sir | the fight |  |  | now |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality |
| 2 | **show** | past · perfect | God | favour | Sir |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient favour=Topic |
| 3 | **grant** | gerund | God *not said here* | good knighthood | Sir |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal knighthood=Theme |
| 4 | **discomfit** | gerund | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Sir's foes and nones | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | the day |  |  |  |  | past nones; well *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **eat** | past · perfect · passive |  | Gawain  Sir |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **save** | infinitive | aught | fight |  |  | day |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme |
| 9 | **receive** | present | aught *not said here* | great blows |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=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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