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description: Then quoth the lord of those within: "Sir Knight and dear guest, I will that ye be right well entreated here within this night." Who acts: you. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tre
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 26

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Then quoth the lord of those within: "Sir Knight and dear guest, I will that ye be right well entreated here within this night."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** quoth, entreat · **To what, where:** lord, folk

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg8447:6:26
# text = Then quoth the lord of those within: "Sir Knight and dear guest, I will that ye be right well entreated here within this night."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	quoth	quoth	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	_
7	within	within	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
21	right	right	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
25	within	within	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quoth** | imperative | you *not said here* | the lord of those |  |  | then; night | Knight  Sir and dear guest *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **entreat** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | folk |  | here |  | that *nsubj:pass*; ye *nsubj:pass*; right, well *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |

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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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