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title: Then Sir Gawain saw a great company of folk spring forth and come to… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Sir Gawain saw a great company of folk spring forth and come towards him with all their might. Who acts: Sir. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 88

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Then Sir Gawain saw a great company of folk spring forth and come towards him with all their might.

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**Who acts:** Sir · **What happens:** see, come · **To what, where:** great company

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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 (Sir), 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:pg8447:6:88
# text = Then Sir Gawain saw a great company of folk spring forth and come towards him with all their might.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Sir | a great company of folk spring |  |  | then | forth *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards Sir | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial\_Location |

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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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