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title: Then quoth Morien: "Were ye better healed I would ride gladly, but i… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then quoth Morien: "Were ye better healed I would ride gladly, but it becometh me well to shun aught that might do ye harm or mischief. Who acts: you, door, peace, ye. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 77

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Then quoth Morien: "Were ye better healed I would ride gladly, but it becometh me well to shun aught that might do ye harm or mischief.

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**Who acts:** you, door, peace, ye · **What happens:** quoth, heal, ride, become, shun, do · **To what, where:** Morien, ye, door, aught · **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, door, peace, 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:pg8447:10:77
# text = Then quoth Morien: "Were ye better healed I would ride gladly, but it becometh me well to shun aught that might do ye harm or mischief.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	quoth	quoth	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
13	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	becometh	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	shun	shun	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
27	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quoth** | imperative | you *not said here* | Morien |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **heal** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | ye |  |  |  | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **ride** *in a quote* | would | door |  |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **become** *in a quote* | present | peace | door |  |  |  | well *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient i=Result |
| 5 | **shun** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | peace *not said here* | aught  mischief |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent aught=Location |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | might |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **harm** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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