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title: Quoth Morien: "But I shall tell ye more thereof! — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Quoth Morien: "But I shall tell ye more thereof! Who acts: ye. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 14

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Quoth Morien: "But I shall tell ye more thereof!

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** ye, Quoth · **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 (ye), 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:pg8447:10:14
# text = Quoth Morien: "But I shall tell ye more thereof!
1	Quoth	Quoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	iobj	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | shall | ye |  | ye |  |  | thereof *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |

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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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