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title: I will aid the queen, and God grant that I may win such fame as shal… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will aid the queen, and God grant that I may win such fame as shall be for the bettering of her cause and mine own honour and profit. Who acts: I, God, sware. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10, with 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 83

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I will aid the queen, and God grant that I may win such fame as shall be for the bettering of her cause and mine own honour and profit.

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**Who acts:** I, God, sware · **What happens:** aid, grant, win, be, cause · **To what, where:** queen, such fame

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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 (I, God, sware), 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:pg8447:10:83
# text = I will aid the queen, and God grant that I may win such fame as shall be for the bettering of her cause and mine own honour and profit.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	aid	aid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grant	grant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bettering	bettering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aid** | future | I |  | the queen |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **grant** | present | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **win** | may | I | such fame |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fame=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | shall | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the bettering; of sware's cause and mine and own honour and profit | tree rules |
| 5 | **cause** |  | sware |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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