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title: Then quoth Sir Lancelot: "Knight, an ye be in any need, when ye come… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then quoth Sir Lancelot: "Knight, an ye be in any need, when ye come into Arthur's land,--I ween 'tis all unknown to ye,--speak but of us twain whom ye see here and men shall do ye naught but honour and courtesy, where'er ye come, in any place. Who acts: you, ye, Moor, men. A sentence of «Morien: A 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 67

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Then quoth Sir Lancelot: "Knight, an ye be in any need, when ye come into Arthur's land,--I ween 'tis all unknown to ye,--speak but of us twain whom ye see here and men shall do ye naught but honour and courtesy, where'er ye come, in any place.

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**Who acts:** you, ye, Moor, men · **What happens:** quoth, be, come, ween, speak, see · **To what, where:** Lancelot, need, land, twain, ye, where'er · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ye, Moor, men), 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:pg8447:3:67
# text = Then quoth Sir Lancelot: "Knight, an ye be in any need, when ye come into Arthur's land,--I ween 'tis all unknown to ye,--speak but of us twain whom ye see here and men shall do ye naught but honour and courtesy, where'er ye come, in any place.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	quoth	quoth	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	ween	ween	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	tis	tis	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
39	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
40	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	obj	_	_
41	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nsubj	_	_
42	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
46	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
48	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	47	obj	_	_
49	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	47	obj	_	_
50	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	where'er	where'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
56	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	57	nsubj	_	_
57	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	61	det	_	_
61	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quoth** | imperative | you *not said here* | Lancelot  Sir |  |  | then | Knight and a need *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye |  |  | a need |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | ye |  |  | Arthur's land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **ween** *in a quote* | present | Moor |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of us | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | present | ye | twain |  | here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 7 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | men | ye |  |  |  | naught  honour  courtesy  where'er *obj* | tree rules |
| 8 | **come** *in a quote* | present | ye | where'er *not said here* |  | any place |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location where'er=Theme |

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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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