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title: Thus, since we may not hope for aid, we are forsaking the castle and… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, since we may not hope for aid, we are forsaking the castle and taking to flight." Who acts: we. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11, 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 11, sentence 56

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Thus, since we may not hope for aid, we are forsaking the castle and taking to flight."

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** not hope, forsake, take · **To what, where:** castle

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg8447:11:56
# text = Thus, since we may not hope for aid, we are forsaking the castle and taking to flight."
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	forsaking	forsake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hope** | may | we |  |  |  |  | for aid | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for aid=Theme |
| 2 | **forsake** | present · progressive | we | the castle |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to flight *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to flight=Result |

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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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