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title: This he sware to do would his uncle grant him leave thereto. — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: This he sware to do would his uncle grant him leave thereto. Who acts: counsel, sware. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 86

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This he sware to do would his uncle grant him leave thereto.

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**Who acts:** counsel, sware · **What happens:** sware, do, grant, leave · **To what, where:** counsel

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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 (counsel, 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:pg8447:10:86
# text = This he sware to do would his uncle grant him leave thereto.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sware	sware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grant	grant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	thereto	thereto	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sware** |  | counsel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | this sware *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grant** | would | this sware | counsel |  |  |  | counsel's uncle *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive | this sware *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thereto *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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