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title: Quoth Sir Gawain his brother, as one wise in counsel, "Knight I will… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Quoth Sir Gawain his brother, as one wise in counsel, "Knight I will tell ye what ye shall do; from haste cometh seldom good that abideth to honour. Who acts: I, ye. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9, w
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 20

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Quoth Sir Gawain his brother, as one wise in counsel, "Knight I will tell ye what ye shall do; from haste cometh seldom good that abideth to honour.

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**Who acts:** I, ye · **What happens:** tell, do, come, abide, honour · **To what, where:** Knight, ye, haste, Quoth · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ye), 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:pg8447:9:20
# text = Quoth Sir Gawain his brother, as one wise in counsel, "Knight I will tell ye what ye shall do; from haste cometh seldom good that abideth to honour.
1	Quoth	Quoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	iobj	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
20	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
26	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	abideth	abide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	honour	honour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | I | Knight *not said here* | ye |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | ye |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | I *not said here* |  |  | haste |  | good *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from haste=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **abide** *in a quote* | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **honour** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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