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title: But that evil knight answered and said he would in no wise do this:… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: But that evil knight answered and said he would in no wise do this: "An ye get not hence, and fly, by heaven it shall be your doomsday! Who acts: evil knight, wise, An, heaven. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 97

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But that evil knight answered and said he would in no wise do this: "An ye get not hence, and fly, by heaven it shall be your doomsday!

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**Who acts:** evil knight, wise, An, heaven · **What happens:** answer, say, do, not get, fly, be · **To what, where:** this, doomsday · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil knight, wise, An, heaven), 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:pg8447:4:97
# text = But that evil knight answered and said he would in no wise do this: "An ye get not hence, and fly, by heaven it shall be your doomsday!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	nsubj	_	_
18	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
21	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	doomsday	doomsday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | that evil knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | that evil knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | present | no wise | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | An |  |  |  |  | ye *nsubj*; hence *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **fly** *in a quote* | infinitive | An *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | heaven | your doomsday |  |  |  | by heaven; your *nmod:poss* | 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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