--- title: Still more may I tell ye; he told my mother that he and many of his… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Still more may I tell ye; he told my mother that he and many of his fellows had sworn a great oath to seek Sir Lancelot, and their quest should endure two years or more an they found him not, or could learn no tidings of him. Who acts: I, Sir, quest, father. 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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 (I, Sir, quest, father), 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:pg8447:3:30 # text = Still more may I tell ye; he told my mother that he and many of his fellows had sworn a great oath to seek Sir Lancelot, and their quest should endure two years or more an they found him not, or could learn no tidings of him. 1 Still still ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 3 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 iobj _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 fellows fellow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 sworn swear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 oath oath NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ _ 26 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:desc _ _ 27 Lancelot Lancelot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 quest quest NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 endure endure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 34 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 conj _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 or or CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 47 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 48 det _ _ 48 tidings tiding NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | may | I | | ye | | still | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Sir | | my mother | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **swear** | past · perfect | Sir | a great oath | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality | | 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Sir *not said here* | Lancelot Sir | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lancelot=Theme | | 5 | **endure** | should | fellows's quest | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **find** | past | father | Sir | | | year | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 7 | **learn** | could | I *not said here* | no tidings of Sir | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=Topic | | 8 | **quest** | | fellows *= fellow* | | | | | | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/31/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/)