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title: Then was Sir Gawain gladder at heart than I may tell ye, for Sir Gar… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then was Sir Gawain gladder at heart than I may tell ye, for Sir Gariët his brother, that strong and valiant knight, brought with him that of which they were sorely in need, bread and meat, and wine fresh and clear. Who acts: I, that. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English P
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 44

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Then was Sir Gawain gladder at heart than I may tell ye, for Sir Gariët his brother, that strong and valiant knight, brought with him that of which they were sorely in need, bread and meat, and wine fresh and clear.

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**Who acts:** I, that · **What happens:** be, tell, bring · **To what, where:** Sir, ye, need · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg8447:8:44
# text = Then was Sir Gawain gladder at heart than I may tell ye, for Sir Gariët his brother, that strong and valiant knight, brought with him that of which they were sorely in need, bread and meat, and wine fresh and clear.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gladder	glad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
16	Gariët	Gariët	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | may | I |  | ye |  |  | Sir and that strong knight *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
| 3 | **bring** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with Sir | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | that |  |  | need and bread and meat |  | which *obl*; Knight *nsubj*; bread *conj*; meat *conj*; sorely *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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