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description: Each man there gave his surety to abide with them at that time, nor to surrender through fear of death, but to hearken to other counsel. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11, with its depen
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 71

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Each man there gave his surety to abide with them at that time, nor to surrender through fear of death, but to hearken to other counsel.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** give, abide, surrender, hearken, fear · **To what, where:** surety, fear, death

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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 (man), 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:pg8447:11:71
# text = Each man there gave his surety to abide with them at that time, nor to surrender through fear of death, but to hearken to other counsel.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	surrender	surrender	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | each man | man's surety |  | there |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surety=Theme |
| 2 | **abide** | to-infinitive | each man *not said here* |  |  |  | time | with matters *= matter* | tree rules |
| 3 | **surrender** | to-infinitive | each man *not said here* |  |  | fear of death |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hearken** | to-infinitive | each man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to other counsel | tree rules |
| 5 | **fear** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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