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title: Quoth Sir Gawain the bold: "Though 'twere hard and painful to me yet… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Quoth Sir Gawain the bold: "Though 'twere hard and painful to me yet would I for seven years long wear haircloth next my body, wherever I fared, for this that ye have received me so well. Who acts: weapons. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 72

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Quoth Sir Gawain the bold: "Though 'twere hard and painful to me yet would I for seven years long wear haircloth next my body, wherever I fared, for this that ye have received me so well.

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**Who acts:** weapons · **What happens:** fare, receive · **To what, where:** this, Gawain bold

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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 (weapons), 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:pg8447:6:72
# text = Quoth Sir Gawain the bold: "Though 'twere hard and painful to me yet would I for seven years long wear haircloth next my body, wherever I fared, for this that ye have received me so well.
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	5	compound	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bold	bold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	twere	twere	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	wear	wear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	haircloth	haircloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	acl	_	_
25	next	next	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	fared	fare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nsubj	_	_
37	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	parataxis	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fare** *in a quote* | past | weapons *= weapon* |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **receive** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | this |  |  |  | that *nsubj:pass*; ye *nsubj*; me *obj*; well *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme i=Location |

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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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