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title: I may not tell ye how oft and how warmly Sir Gawain thanked Morien,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: I may not tell ye how oft and how warmly Sir Gawain thanked Morien, that he had saved his life that day on the field, where he had of a surety been slain had not God and that good knight come to his aid. Who acts: I, Sir, good knight. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English P
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 48

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I may not tell ye how oft and how warmly Sir Gawain thanked Morien, that he had saved his life that day on the field, where he had of a surety been slain had not God and that good knight come to his aid.

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**Who acts:** I, Sir, good knight · **What happens:** not tell, thank, save, have, be, come · **To what, where:** ye, Morien, life, field, surety slain, aid · **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, Sir, good knight), 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:pg8447:9:48
# text = I may not tell ye how oft and how warmly Sir Gawain thanked Morien, that he had saved his life that day on the field, where he had of a surety been slain had not God and that good knight come to his aid.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
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	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	warmly	warmly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	cop	_	_
35	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | may | I |  | ye |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Sir |  | Morien |  |  | warmly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morien=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | past · perfect | Sir | Sir's life |  | the field | day |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent life=Theme on field=Source |
| 4 | **have** | past | Sir |  |  |  |  | of God | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | participle |  | a surety slain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | infinitive | good knight |  |  | Sir's aid |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial\_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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