--- title: Here may we well win fame for ourselves and uphold the honour of our… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Here may we well win fame for ourselves and uphold the honour of our lord King Arthur. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/11/66/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/11/) / 66 # Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 66 Here may we well win fame for ourselves and uphold the honour of our lord King Arthur. **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** win, uphold, honour · **To what, where:** fame, honour, lord 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. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:11:66 # text = Here may we well win fame for ourselves and uphold the honour of our lord King Arthur. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 win win VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 fame fame NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 uphold uphold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Arthur Arthur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | may | we | fame | | here | | for ourselves; well *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fame=Theme for ourselves=Beneficiary | | 2 | **uphold** | infinitive | we *not said here* | the honour of our lord | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **honour** | | | our lord | | | | | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/11/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/11/67/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/11/)