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title: Sir Lancelot spake: "Of a sooth, an ye had not thus charged me I sho… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Lancelot spake: "Of a sooth, an ye had not thus charged me I should have avenged myself or here been slain, in that this knight forced the strife upon me without cause, and loaded me with blows; but in that ye so conjure me, I am he that will harm no man for profit to myself save that he first a
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 10

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Sir Lancelot spake: "Of a sooth, an ye had not thus charged me I should have avenged myself or here been slain, in that this knight forced the strife upon me without cause, and loaded me with blows; but in that ye so conjure me, I am he that will harm no man for profit to myself save that he first attack me.

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**Who acts:** ye, Gawain, knight · **What happens:** have, not charge, avenge, be, force, load · **To what, where:** Gawain, slain, strife, that, Sir spake

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, Gawain, knight), 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:pg8447:3:10
# text = Sir Lancelot spake: "Of a sooth, an ye had not thus charged me I should have avenged myself or here been slain, in that this knight forced the strife upon me without cause, and loaded me with blows; but in that ye so conjure me, I am he that will harm no man for profit to myself save that he first attack me.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sooth	sooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	appos	_	_
11	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	avenged	avenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
21	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
25	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
36	without	without	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	loaded	load	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
41	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	obl	_	_
48	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	50	nsubj	_	_
49	so	so	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	conjure	conjure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
51	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
53	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
54	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
56	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
57	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	conj	_	_
59	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	60	det	_	_
60	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	for	for	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	_
63	to	to	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	58	obl	_	_
65	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	conj	_	_
66	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	69	mark	_	_
67	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	nsubj	_	_
68	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	69	advmod	_	_
69	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	advcl	_	_
70	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	69	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **charge** *in a quote* | past | ye *not said here* |  | Gawain |  |  | thus *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location i=Theme |
| 3 | **avenge** *in a quote* | should · perfect | Gawain | Gawain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | participle | Gawain *not said here* | slain |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **force** *in a quote* | past | this knight | the strife |  |  |  | upon Gawain; without cause | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strife=Recipient |
| 6 | **load** *in a quote* | past | this knight *not said here* |  | Gawain |  |  | with blows | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with blow=Theme |
| 7 | **conjure** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye | Gawain |  | that |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Result |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Gawain |  | Gawain |  |  | Gawain *nsubj*; that *nsubj*; no man *obj*; harm *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **save** *in a quote* | infinitive | Gawain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **attack** *in a quote* | infinitive | Gawain | Gawain |  |  |  | first *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

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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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