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title: Then spake the knight to the king, who stood before him: "That will… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then spake the knight to the king, who stood before him: "That will I tell ye, for I am sworn and pledged thereto. ' Who acts: you, king, That. 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 tre
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 8

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Then spake the knight to the king, who stood before him: "That will I tell ye, for I am sworn and pledged thereto. '

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**Who acts:** you, king, That · **What happens:** speak, stand, tell, swear, pledge · **To what, where:** knight, ye, I · **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 (you, king, That), 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:pg8447:2:8
# text = Then spake the knight to the king, who stood before him: "That will I tell ye, for I am sworn and pledged thereto. '
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	spake	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	pledged	pledge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	thereto	thereto	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the knight |  |  | then | to the king | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the king |  |  |  | before knight |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | That |  | ye |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
| 4 | **swear** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **pledge** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | thereto *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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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