--- title: Quoth Sir Gawain: "Dear mine host, I grieve that ye yet sorrow; so m… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Quoth Sir Gawain: "Dear mine host, I grieve that ye yet sorrow; so may God guard me and bring me to His grace when I die as I truly mourn for your mischance. Who acts: weapons, ye, God. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. 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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 (weapons, ye, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:6:70 # text = Quoth Sir Gawain: "Dear mine host, I grieve that ye yet sorrow; so may God guard me and bring me to His grace when I die as I truly mourn for your mischance. 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 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 mine mine NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 grieve grieve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj _ _ 14 yet yet ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 sorrow sorrow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 guard guard VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 truly truly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 mourn mourn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 mischance mischance NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grieve** *in a quote* | present | weapons *= weapon* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **sorrow** *in a quote* | present | ye | | | | yet | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **guard** *in a quote* | may | God | | weapons *= weapon* | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | | 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | God *not said here* | weapons *= weapon* | | God's grace | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to grace=Destination | | 5 | **die** *in a quote* | present | weapons *= weapon* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **mourn** *in a quote* | present | weapons *= weapon* | | | | | for your mischance; truly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for mischance=Attribute | 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. **Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. 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