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title: Thus came the host to where Sir Gawain stood, and spake: "Sir Knight… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus came the host to where Sir Gawain stood, and spake: "Sir Knight, be not wroth that my folk entreat ye not better. Who acts: host, Sir, folk. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6, with its dependency t
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 16

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Thus came the host to where Sir Gawain stood, and spake: "Sir Knight, be not wroth that my folk entreat ye not better.

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**Who acts:** host, Sir, folk · **What happens:** come, stand, not be, entreat · **To what, where:** spake, ye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (host, Sir, folk), 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:pg8447:6:16
# text = Thus came the host to where Sir Gawain stood, and spake: "Sir Knight, be not wroth that my folk entreat ye not better.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	entreat	entreat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	csubj	_	_
25	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	obj	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the host | spake |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | the host *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **entreat** *in a quote* | infinitive | my folk | ye |  |  |  | good *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |

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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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