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title: The goodman said: "I tell ye there are ten knights within (and they… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The goodman said: "I tell ye there are ten knights within (and they have naught but death before them), and a great company of foot soldiers. Who acts: goodman, ten knights, knights. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, O
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 50

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The goodman said: "I tell ye there are ten knights within (and they have naught but death before them), and a great company of foot soldiers.

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**Who acts:** goodman, ten knights, knights · **What happens:** say, tell, be, have · **To what, where:** great company, ye, naught · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goodman, ten knights, knights), 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:pg8447:11:50
# text = The goodman said: "I tell ye there are ten knights within (and they have naught but death before them), and a great company of foot soldiers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goodman	goodman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	iobj	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
18	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	17	obj	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the goodman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the goodman *= goodman* | a great company of foot soldiers | ye |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **does** *in a quote* | present | ten knights |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | knights *= knight* | naught  death |  |  | before leaders *= leader* |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Patient |

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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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