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title: Sir Agloval made answer: "By Heaven Sir Knight, I believe ye, every… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Agloval made answer: "By Heaven Sir Knight, I believe ye, every whit. Who acts: Sir, 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 20

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Sir Agloval made answer: "By Heaven Sir Knight, I believe ye, every whit.

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**Who acts:** Sir, ye · **What happens:** make, believe · **To what, where:** answer · **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 (Sir, 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:pg8447:10:20
# text = Sir Agloval made answer: "By Heaven Sir Knight, I believe ye, every whit.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	By	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Sir | answer |  |  |  | by Heaven Knight  Sir and every whit | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product |
| 2 | **believe** *in a quote* | present | ye |  |  |  |  | ye *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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