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title: Sir Gawain spake: "For that may God, who ruleth over all, reward ye." — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Gawain spake: "For that may God, who ruleth over all, reward ye." Who acts: God. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 79

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Sir Gawain spake: "For that may God, who ruleth over all, reward ye."

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** rule, reward · **To what, where:** all, ye, God

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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 (God), 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:pg8447:6:79
# text = Sir Gawain spake: "For that may God, who ruleth over all, reward ye."
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	For	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ruleth	rule	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	reward	reward	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** *in a quote* | present | God  Sir spake for that |  |  | all |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reward** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | ye |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=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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