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title: I am Gawain, your comrade; little did I foresee this mischance when… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: I am Gawain, your comrade; little did I foresee this mischance when we parted, you and I, at this cross-way! Who acts: I, we. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 45

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I am Gawain, your comrade; little did I foresee this mischance when we parted, you and I, at this cross-way!

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**Who acts:** I, we · **What happens:** be, foresee, part · **To what, where:** Gawain, mischance, cross-way, you

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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:pg8447:7:45
# text = I am Gawain, your comrade; little did I foresee this mischance when we parted, you and I, at this cross-way!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	foresee	foresee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	mischance	mischance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	cross-way	cross-way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | Gawain |  |  |  | your comrade *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **foresee** | past · do-support | I | this mischance |  | this cross-way |  | little *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischance=Theme |
| 3 | **part** | past | we | you |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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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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