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title: Sir Gawain sat by the wayside in sorry plight, with his hands bound;… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Gawain sat by the wayside in sorry plight, with his hands bound; but the good knight Morien so drave aback the folk who had brought him thither that they had little thought for him. Who acts: Sir, hands, good knight. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 53

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Sir Gawain sat by the wayside in sorry plight, with his hands bound; but the good knight Morien so drave aback the folk who had brought him thither that they had little thought for him.

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**Who acts:** Sir, hands, good knight · **What happens:** sit, bound, drave, bring, think · **To what, where:** sorry plight, aback folk, knights

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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 (Sir, hands, good knight), 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:pg8447:7:53
# text = Sir Gawain sat by the wayside in sorry plight, with his hands bound; but the good knight Morien so drave aback the folk who had brought him thither that they had little thought for him.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wayside	wayside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	plight	plight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bound	bound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	drave	drave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
23	aback	aback	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
35	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Sir |  |  | sorry plight |  | by the wayside | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wayside=Location |
| 2 | **bound** | present | Sir's hands |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drave** | infinitive | the good knight | the aback folk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the aback folk |  |  |  | Sir *obj*; thither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | knights *= knight* |  |  |  | for Sir; little *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=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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