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title: I know not, and have no true tidings, whether that lady of whom ye s… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: I know not, and have no true tidings, whether that lady of whom ye speak be living or dead; naught do I know thereof!" Who acts: I, ye, lady. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 13

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I know not, and have no true tidings, whether that lady of whom ye speak be living or dead; naught do I know thereof!"

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**Who acts:** I, ye, lady · **What happens:** not know, have, speak, be, live, know · **To what, where:** true tidings · **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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ye, lady), 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:pg8447:10:13
# text = I know not, and have no true tidings, whether that lady of whom ye speak be living or dead; naught do I know thereof!"
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
8	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nmod	_	_
16	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
17	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
19	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	26	nsubj	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
27	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | present | I *not said here* | no true tidings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=Patient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **know** | present · do-support | that lady |  |  |  |  | naught *nsubj*; I *nsubj*; thereof *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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