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title: Quoth Sir Gawain: "An ye be wise, Sir Knight, ye will now speak; her… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Quoth Sir Gawain: "An ye be wise, Sir Knight, ye will now speak; here will I tarry no longer. Who acts: ye, Gawain Knight, Dear Knight. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and th
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 33

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Quoth Sir Gawain: "An ye be wise, Sir Knight, ye will now speak; here will I tarry no longer.

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**Who acts:** ye, Gawain Knight, Dear Knight · **What happens:** be, speak, tarry · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, Gawain Knight, Dear Knight), 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:pg8447:5:33
# text = Quoth Sir Gawain: "An ye be wise, Sir Knight, ye will now speak; here will I tarry no longer.
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	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	tarry	tarry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	no	no	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | future | Gawain Knight  Sir |  |  |  | now | ye *nsubj* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tarry** *in a quote* | future | Dear Knight  Sir *= knight* |  |  | here |  | long *property* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: 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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