--- title: Quoth Sir Lancelot: "By the Lord who made me, and who shall be Doom'… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Quoth Sir Lancelot: "By the Lord who made me, and who shall be Doom's-man at the last day, come what may thereof, since Sir Gawain rideth hence 'tis not I will bide behind! Who acts: Quoth Lancelot, Sir, ye. 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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 Lancelot, Sir, ye), 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:pg8447:2:63 # text = Quoth Sir Lancelot: "By the Lord who made me, and who shall be Doom's-man at the last day, come what may thereof, since Sir Gawain rideth hence 'tis not I will bide behind! 1 Quoth Quoth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:desc _ _ 3 Lancelot Lancelot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 By by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 17 Doom's Doom's PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 26 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 25 advcl _ _ 27 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 28 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 since since SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 Gawain Gawain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ _ 33 rideth ride VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 34 hence hence ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 tis tis NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 bide bide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 41 behind behind ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** *in a quote* | past | Quoth Lancelot Sir | ye | | | | by the Lord; who *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | | Doom's man | | | day | who *nsubj* | tree rules | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | what *advcl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ride** *in a quote* | present | Sir | tis | | | | hence *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **bide** *in a quote* | future | ye | | | | | behind *property* | 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. 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. - ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/64/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/)