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title: And Sir Gawain when he was ware of that was fain to forget all his p… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Sir Gawain when he was ware of that was fain to forget all his pain. Who acts: Sir, that. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 72

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And Sir Gawain when he was ware of that was fain to forget all his pain.

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**Who acts:** Sir, that · **What happens:** be, forget, pain · **To what, where:** ware, pain

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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, that), 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:pg8447:7:72
# text = And Sir Gawain when he was ware of that was fain to forget all his pain.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	ware	ware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	csubj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Sir | ware |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | fain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **forget** | to-infinitive |  | Sir's pain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pain** |  | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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