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title: They bound Sir Gawain's hands, and set him on a sorry hack, and to a… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: They bound Sir Gawain's hands, and set him on a sorry hack, and to anger him they led beside him Gringalet, his steed. Who acts: smart, anger. 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
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 5

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They bound Sir Gawain's hands, and set him on a sorry hack, and to anger him they led beside him Gringalet, his steed.

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**Who acts:** smart, anger · **What happens:** bound, set, lead · **To what, where:** hands, Sir, sorry hack, Gringalet

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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 (smart, anger), 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:pg8447:7:5
# text = They bound Sir Gawain's hands, and set him on a sorry hack, and to anger him they led beside him Gringalet, his steed.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bound	bound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hack	hack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	Gringalet	Gringalet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	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 | **bound** | present | smart | Gawain  Sir's hands |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hand=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive | smart *not said here* | Sir |  | a sorry hack |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on hack=Destination |
| 3 | **lead** | past | anger  Sir | Gringalet |  |  |  | beside Sir; smart *nsubj* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gringalet=Theme beside he=Destination |

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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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