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title: Twere a sin and a disgrace to yield up the castle, we should better… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Twere a sin and a disgrace to yield up the castle, we should better adventure our lives and see the matter to an end." 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 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 63

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Twere a sin and a disgrace to yield up the castle, we should better adventure our lives and see the matter to an end."

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** twere, yield up, adventure, see · **To what, where:** sin, castle, lives, matter

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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:pg8447:11:63
# text = Twere a sin and a disgrace to yield up the castle, we should better adventure our lives and see the matter to an end."
1	Twere	twere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	yield	yield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twere** | past |  | a sin and a disgrace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **yield up** | to-infinitive |  | the castle |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |
| 3 | **adventure** | should | we | our lives |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive |  | the matter |  |  | to a end |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer matter=Stimulus |

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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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