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title: Then Morien dismounted, and took Sir Gawain in his arms, and said fu… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Morien dismounted, and took Sir Gawain in his arms, and said full oft, "Alas, my comrade, how were ye thus betrayed? Who acts: Morien. 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 an
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 65

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Then Morien dismounted, and took Sir Gawain in his arms, and said full oft, "Alas, my comrade, how were ye thus betrayed?

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**Who acts:** Morien · **What happens:** dismount, take, say, betray · **To what, where:** Gawain, arms, 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morien), 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:pg8447:7:65
# text = Then Morien dismounted, and took Sir Gawain in his arms, and said full oft, "Alas, my comrade, how were ye thus betrayed?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dismounted	dismount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
26	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	betrayed	betray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dismount** | past | Morien |  |  |  | then |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | Morien *not said here* | Gawain  Sir |  | Morien's arms |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gawain=Value in arm=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Morien *not said here* |  |  |  |  | my comrade *ccomp*; oft *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **betray** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | ye |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |

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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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