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title: And the king said: "Sir Kay, let this talk be; ye should of right be… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king said: "Sir Kay, let this talk be; ye should of right be shamed when ye hear the Welshman's name! Who acts: king, Sir, talk, ye. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 38

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And the king said: "Sir Kay, let this talk be; ye should of right be shamed when ye hear the Welshman's name!

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**Who acts:** king, Sir, talk, ye, Welshman · **What happens:** say, let, be, shame, hear, name · **To what, where:** talk, right, name · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Sir, talk, 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:pg8447:2:38
# text = And the king said: "Sir Kay, let this talk be; ye should of right be shamed when ye hear the Welshman's name!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	shamed	shame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
22	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Welshman	Welshman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sir | this talk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | infinitive | this talk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shame** *in a quote* | should · passive |  | right |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **hear** *in a quote* | present | ye | the Welshman's name |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 6 | **name** *in a quote* |  | the Welshman |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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