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title: Sir Gawain spake: "Take ye not to heart that which has here chanced,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Gawain spake: "Take ye not to heart that which has here chanced, it shall be naught the worse for ye." Who acts: heart. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 73

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Sir Gawain spake: "Take ye not to heart that which has here chanced, it shall be naught the worse for ye."

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** take, chance, be · **To what, where:** ye, heart, naught, Gawain

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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 (heart), 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:pg8447:3:73
# text = Sir Gawain spake: "Take ye not to heart that which has here chanced, it shall be naught the worse for ye."
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	appos	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obj	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	chanced	chance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | ye |  |  |  | heart *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument ye=Theme heart=Destination |
| 2 | **chance** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | heart |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | heart | naught |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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