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description: That which the lady claimeth from me, in that I have thus betrayed her and foresworn mine oath, that will I make good, by the help of God. Who acts: That, I. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10, with its
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 21

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That which the lady claimeth from me, in that I have thus betrayed her and foresworn mine oath, that will I make good, by the help of God.

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**Who acts:** That, I · **What happens:** claim, betray, foreswear, make, help · **To what, where:** lady, mine, God

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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 (That, I), 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:pg8447:10:21
# text = That which the lady claimeth from me, in that I have thus betrayed her and foresworn mine oath, that will I make good, by the help of God.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	claimeth	claim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	betrayed	betray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	foresworn	foreswear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
18	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | That |  |  |  |  | from me; which *obj*; the lady *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 2 | **betray** | present · perfect | I | lady |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **foreswear** | participle | I *not said here* | mine |  |  |  | oath *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | future | that |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; the help of God *parataxis*; good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **help** |  |  | God |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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