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title: Quoth Sir Perceval, "Then wherefore delay? — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Quoth Sir Perceval, "Then wherefore delay? A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12, 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 12, sentence 52

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Quoth Sir Perceval, "Then wherefore delay?

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**To what, where:** delay

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8447:12:52
# text = Quoth Sir Perceval, "Then wherefore delay?
1	Quoth	Quoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
7	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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