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title: May He who can do all things shew favour and honour to ye Sir Knight… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: May He who can do all things shew favour and honour to ye Sir Knight, and to all who be with ye there within!" Who acts: May, things. 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 tree and the
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 2

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May He who can do all things shew favour and honour to ye Sir Knight, and to all who be with ye there within!"

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**Who acts:** May, things · **What happens:** do, shew, be · **To what, where:** favour

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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 (May, things), 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:pg8447:10:2
# text = May He who can do all things shew favour and honour to ye Sir Knight, and to all who be with ye there within!"
1	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	shew	shew	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod	_	_
14	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	obl	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advcl	_	_
25	within	within	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | can | May |  |  |  |  | Sir *nsubj*; who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shew** | present | all things | favour and honour to ye  Knight  Sir |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to all; who *nsubj*; ye *nsubj*; there *property* | 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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