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title: Quoth Sir Lancelot: "By the Lord who made me, Sir Gawain, we must ne… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Quoth Sir Lancelot: "By the Lord who made me, Sir Gawain, we must needs depart from each other here and now, would we find these knights. Who acts: Quoth Lancelot, Lancelot Gawain, we. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston,
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 34

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Quoth Sir Lancelot: "By the Lord who made me, Sir Gawain, we must needs depart from each other here and now, would we find these knights.

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**Who acts:** Quoth Lancelot, Lancelot Gawain, we · **What happens:** make, depart, find · **To what, where:** steeds, each, knights

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quoth Lancelot, Lancelot Gawain, we), 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:pg8447:4:34
# text = Quoth Sir Lancelot: "By the Lord who made me, Sir Gawain, we must needs depart from each other here and now, would we find these knights.
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	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	By	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	depart	depart	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	19	obl	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
30	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | past | Quoth Lancelot  Sir | steeds *= steed* |  |  |  | by the Lord | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product |
| 2 | **depart** *in a quote* | must | Lancelot Gawain  Sir |  |  | each; here | now | we *nsubj*; needs *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from each=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | would | we | this knights |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Topic |

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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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