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description: Now bethink ye well, and say if ye will come or no. When ye parted from my mother she bare me though she knew it not. Who acts: you, ye, lady. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tre
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 18

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Now bethink ye well, and say if ye will come or no. When ye parted from my mother she bare me though she knew it not.

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**Who acts:** you, ye, lady · **What happens:** bethink, say, come, part, bear, not know · **To what, where:** ye, me, no. · **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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ye, lady), 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:pg8447:10:18
# text = Now bethink ye well, and say if ye will come or no. When ye parted from my mother she bare me though she knew it not.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	bethink	bethink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	bare	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bethink** | imperative | you *not said here* | ye |  |  | now | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | ye |  |  |  |  | no. *conj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **part** | past | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bear** | infinitive | lady | me |  |  |  | from my mother | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **know** | past | lady | no. |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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