--- title: Quoth Sir Lancelot: "By my good days, nevermore will I be wrathful,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Quoth Sir Lancelot: "By my good days, nevermore will I be wrathful, nor bear rancour against ye for any lack of courtesy; ye need no longer stand on guard against me, my heart is not evil towards ye, and we will counsel ye well." Who acts: Sir, ye, heart, we. 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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 (Sir, ye, heart, we), 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:pg8447:3:47 # text = Quoth Sir Lancelot: "By my good days, nevermore will I be wrathful, nor bear rancour against ye for any lack of courtesy; ye need no longer stand on guard against me, my heart is not evil towards ye, and we will counsel ye well." 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 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 By by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 nevermore nevermore ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 wrathful wrathful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 19 cc _ _ 18 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 rancour rancour NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 against against ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nmod _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 lack lack NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 courtesy courtesy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nsubj _ _ 29 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 30 no no ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 32 advmod _ _ 32 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 against against ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 43 towards towards ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 48 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 counsel counsel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 50 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 49 obj _ _ 51 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 49 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | future | Sir | | | | | bear rancour against ye for any lack of courtesy *obl*; nevermore, wrathful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **need** *in a quote* | present | ye | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **stand** *in a quote* | present | ye *not said here* | | | guard | | against Sir; long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on guard=Location | | 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | my heart | | | | | towards ye; evil *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **counsel** *speech: other* *in a quote* | future | we | ye | | | | well *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | | 7 | **lack** *in a quote* | | | courtesy | | | | | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient | 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/48/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/)