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title: Then swore the king an oath that an they yielded them not up straigh… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then swore the king an oath that an they yielded them not up straight-way they should in no wise escape the uttermost that he might do unto them. Who acts: knights, King. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 76

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Then swore the king an oath that an they yielded them not up straight-way they should in no wise escape the uttermost that he might do unto them.

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**Who acts:** knights, King · **What happens:** swear, not yield up, escape, do · **To what, where:** king, oath, uttermost

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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 (knights, King), 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:pg8447:11:76
# text = Then swore the king an oath that an they yielded them not up straight-way they should in no wise escape the uttermost that he might do unto them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	appos	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	yielded	yield	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
13	up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
22	escape	escape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	uttermost	uttermost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
29	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past |  | the king |  |  | then | a oath *obj* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme oath=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **yield up** | past | knights *= knight* | a oath |  |  |  | way *obl*; sin *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **escape** | infinitive |  | the uttermost |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme uttermost=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **do** | might | King |  |  |  |  | unto knights *= knight* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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