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title: The morrow as the day dawned, and shed beauty over hill and vale, th… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The morrow as the day dawned, and shed beauty over hill and vale, they rode forth together, and Sir Gawain the Father of Adventure with them. Who acts: morrow, hill. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9, w
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 31

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The morrow as the day dawned, and shed beauty over hill and vale, they rode forth together, and Sir Gawain the Father of Adventure with them.

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**Who acts:** morrow, hill · **What happens:** dawn, shed, ride · **To what, where:** Gawain, beauty, hill

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morrow, hill), 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:pg8447:9:31
# text = The morrow as the day dawned, and shed beauty over hill and vale, they rode forth together, and Sir Gawain the Father of Adventure with them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	shed	shed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dawn** | past | the morrow | Gawain  Sir of Adventure with hill |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shed** | past | the morrow *not said here* | beauty |  | hill and vale |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beauty=Source |
| 3 | **ride** | past | hill |  |  |  |  | forth, together *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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