--- title: Quoth Sir Gawain, "Ye mind me of an old saying, Sir Kay, how if some… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Quoth Sir Gawain, "Ye mind me of an old saying, Sir Kay, how if some men grow old, and God should spare them even to an hundred years, then would they be but the more foolish--such an one, methinks, are ye! Who acts: Quoth, men, God, Grail. 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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 (Quoth, men, God, Grail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:2:46 # text = Quoth Sir Gawain, "Ye mind me of an old saying, Sir Kay, how if some men grow old, and God should spare them even to an hundred years, then would they be but the more foolish--such an one, methinks, are ye! 1 Quoth Quoth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Gawain Gawain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nsubj _ _ 7 mind mind VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:desc _ _ 15 Kay Kay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 spare spare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 even even ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 36 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 42 advmod _ _ 42 foolish foolish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 43 -- -- PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 46 det:predet _ _ 45 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 methinks methink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 51 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive | Quoth | ye | | | | of a old saying; Ye *nsubj* | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **grow** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | some men | | | | | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **spare** *in a quote* | should | God | Grail | | | year | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Asset | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | would | Grail | | | | then | such one and methinks *parataxis*; foolish *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Quoth *not said here* | ye | | | | | tree rules | 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. **Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. 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