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title: Gentle and courteous is he to all the world, rich and poor, so long… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gentle and courteous is he to all the world, rich and poor, so long as men do him no wrong, but let his temper be changed, and nowhere shall ye find his fellow!" Who acts: Perceval, men, temper, ye. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jes
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 50

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Gentle and courteous is he to all the world, rich and poor, so long as men do him no wrong, but let his temper be changed, and nowhere shall ye find his fellow!"

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**Who acts:** Perceval, men, temper, ye · **What happens:** be, do, let, change, find, temper · **To what, where:** Perceval, temper, fellow

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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 (Perceval, men, temper, 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:pg8447:2:50
# text = Gentle and courteous is he to all the world, rich and poor, so long as men do him no wrong, but let his temper be changed, and nowhere shall ye find his fellow!"
1	Gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nsubj	_	_
35	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Perceval |  |  |  |  | to all Gentle world | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | men | Perceval |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | Perceval *not said here* | Perceval's temper |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **change** | infinitive · passive | Perceval's temper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **find** | shall | ye | Perceval's fellow |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Topic |
| 6 | **temper** |  | Perceval |  |  |  |  |  | nom temper «feeling 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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