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title: Gringalet was bare of harness, he had lost his saddle as ye heard af… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gringalet was bare of harness, he had lost his saddle as ye heard afore, and therefore no man had mounted him. Who acts: Gringalet, ye, man. 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 a
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 70

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Gringalet was bare of harness, he had lost his saddle as ye heard afore, and therefore no man had mounted him.

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**Who acts:** Gringalet, ye, man · **What happens:** be, lose, hear, mount · **To what, where:** saddle, 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 (Gringalet, ye, man), 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:pg8447:7:70
# text = Gringalet was bare of harness, he had lost his saddle as ye heard afore, and therefore no man had mounted him.
1	Gringalet	Gringalet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	afore	afore	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Gringalet |  |  |  |  | of harness; bare *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | past · perfect | Gringalet | Gringalet's saddle |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hear** | past | ye |  |  |  |  | afore *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **mount** | past · perfect | no man | Gringalet |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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