--- title: Quoth Sir Gawain: "Then must ye lay aside all outrageousness, and ri… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Quoth Sir Gawain: "Then must ye lay aside all outrageousness, and ride peaceably on your way, and whatever knight shall meet ye, and greet ye courteously, him shall ye greet and let pass on his way without strife or contention; and be his friend an he hath done ye no wrong--this do I counsel ye stra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/78/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/) / 78 # Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 78 Quoth Sir Gawain: "Then must ye lay aside all outrageousness, and ride peaceably on your way, and whatever knight shall meet ye, and greet ye courteously, him shall ye greet and let pass on his way without strife or contention; and be his friend an he hath done ye no wrong--this do I counsel ye straitly. **Who acts:** ye, knight, Sir, an · **What happens:** lay, ride, meet, greet, let, pass on · **To what, where:** outrageousness, way, ye, friend, Sir, Quoth Gawain 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 (ye, knight, Sir, an), 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:pg8447:3:78 # text = Quoth Sir Gawain: "Then must ye lay aside all outrageousness, and ride peaceably on your way, and whatever knight shall meet ye, and greet ye courteously, him shall ye greet and let pass on his way without strife or contention; and be his friend an he hath done ye no wrong--this do I counsel ye straitly. 1 Quoth Quoth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:desc _ _ 3 Gawain Gawain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 7 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 10 aside aside ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 outrageousness outrageousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 ride ride VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 16 peaceably peaceably ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 whatever whatever DET WDT PronType=Int 23 det _ _ 23 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 26 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 greet greet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 30 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 obj _ _ 31 courteously courteously ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 nsubj _ _ 36 greet greet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 39 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 40 on on ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 without without ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 strife strife NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 45 or or CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 contention contention NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ; ; PUNCT : _ 51 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 49 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 51 cop _ _ 50 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 52 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 63 nsubj:outer _ _ 53 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 54 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux:pass _ _ 55 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 52 acl:relcl _ _ 56 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 55 nsubj _ _ 57 no no ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 58 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 59 -- -- PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 63 nsubj _ _ 61 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ _ 62 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 63 counsel counsel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 acl:relcl _ _ 64 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 63 obj _ _ 65 straitly straitly ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** *in a quote* | must | ye | all outrageousness | | | then | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outrageousness=Result | | 2 | **ride** *in a quote* | present | ye *not said here* | | | your way | | peaceably *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **meet** *in a quote* | shall | whatever knight | ye | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Co-Agent | | 4 | **greet** *speech: greet* *in a quote* | infinitive | ye *not said here* | ye | | | | courteously *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme | | 5 | **greet** *speech: greet* *in a quote* | shall | Sir | | | | | ye *nsubj* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sir *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **pass on** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sir *not said here* | Sir's way | | | | without strife or contention | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Sir's friend | | | | Sir *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 9 | **do** *in a quote* | present · passive | | Sir | | | | ye *nsubj*; wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 10 | **counsel** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | an | ye | | | | this *nsubj*; I *nsubj*; straitly *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/79/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/)