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title: Quoth Sir Gawain, "Were it your command, and your will and pleasure,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Quoth Sir Gawain, "Were it your command, and your will and pleasure, right gladly would I abide here within this night! Who acts: command, lord, your. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, with its depende
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 72

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Quoth Sir Gawain, "Were it your command, and your will and pleasure, right gladly would I abide here within this night!

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**Who acts:** command, lord, your · **What happens:** be, pleasure, abide, command · **To what, where:** castle · **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 (command, lord, your), 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:pg8447:5:72
# text = Quoth Sir Gawain, "Were it your command, and your will and pleasure, right gladly would I abide here within this night!
1	Quoth	Quoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	vocative	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pleasure	pleasure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	right	right	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
23	within	within	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | castle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pleasure** *in a quote* | future | your command |  |  |  |  | Quoth *vocative* | tree rules |
| 3 | **abide** *in a quote* | would | the lord *= lord* |  |  | here | night | gladly, right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **command** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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