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title: Now will I tell ye of Morien ere that I end the tale of Sir Gawain. — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now will I tell ye of Morien ere that I end the tale of Sir Gawain. Who acts: I, Morien, Gawain. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7, 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 7, sentence 13

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Now will I tell ye of Morien ere that I end the tale of Sir Gawain.

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**Who acts:** I, Morien, Gawain · **What happens:** tell, ere, end · **To what, where:** ye, tale · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Morien, Gawain), 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:pg8447:7:13
# text = Now will I tell ye of Morien ere that I end the tale of Sir Gawain.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	iobj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ere	ere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I |  | ye |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **ere** | past | Morien |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **end** | present | I | the tale of Gawain  Sir |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tale=Eventuality |
| 4 | **tell** |  | Gawain  Sir |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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