--- title: Then quoth Sir Gariët his brother, "Let us eat and drink, and begin… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Then quoth Sir Gariët his brother, "Let us eat and drink, and begin our meal, as we have need to do--but where is Sir Lancelot, that I see him not here? Who acts: you, us, we, 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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, we, 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:pg8447:8:80 # text = Then quoth Sir Gariët his brother, "Let us eat and drink, and begin our meal, as we have need to do--but where is Sir Lancelot, that I see him not here? 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 quoth quoth VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 Gariët Gariët PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 begin begin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 30 advmod _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:desc _ _ 31 Lancelot Lancelot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 38 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **quoth** | imperative | you *not said here* | Sir | | | then | Lancelot *obl*; Sir's brother *obj* | tree rules | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **begin** *in a quote* | present | | our meal | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Eventuality | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **need** *in a quote* | present | we *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **do** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | Sir | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | present | God | Sir | | here | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | 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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