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title: The Moor spake: "'Tis labour lost. — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Moor spake: "'Tis labour lost. Who acts: Moor spake. 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 of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 75

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The Moor spake: "'Tis labour lost.

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**Who acts:** Moor spake · **What happens:** lose

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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 (Moor spake), 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:pg8447:3:75
# text = The Moor spake: "'Tis labour lost.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | the Moor spake |  |  |  |  | Tis labour *nsubj* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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