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title: Now will I leave this tale and tell ye how Morien rode again to his… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now will I leave this tale and tell ye how Morien rode again to his father, whom he had left sick with his uncle, as I gave ye to wit afore. Who acts: I, Morien. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12, with
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 42

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Now will I leave this tale and tell ye how Morien rode again to his father, whom he had left sick with his uncle, as I gave ye to wit afore.

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**Who acts:** I, Morien · **What happens:** leave, tell, ride, give, wit · **To what, where:** tale, ye, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Morien), 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:pg8447:12:42
# text = Now will I leave this tale and tell ye how Morien rode again to his father, whom he had left sick with his uncle, as I gave ye to wit afore.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	iobj	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
30	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	iobj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	wit	wit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	afore	afore	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | future | I | this tale |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  | ye |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **ride** | past | Morien |  |  |  | again | to Morien's father | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to father=Trajectory |
| 4 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | Morien's father |  |  |  | with Morien's uncle; Morien *nsubj*; sick *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with uncle=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | past | I |  | ye |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **wit** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afore *property* | tree rules |

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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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