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title: Your son is so good a knight, and stout a warrior, that ye may well… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your son is so good a knight, and stout a warrior, that ye may well thank heaven that ye begat him. Who acts: son, that, ye. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 53

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Your son is so good a knight, and stout a warrior, that ye may well thank heaven that ye begat him.

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**Who acts:** son, that, ye · **What happens:** be, stout, thank, begat · **To what, where:** warrior, heaven

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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 (son, that, ye), 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:pg8447:12:53
# text = Your son is so good a knight, and stout a warrior, that ye may well thank heaven that ye begat him.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stout	stout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj:outer	_	_
15	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
19	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
22	begat	begat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Your son |  |  |  |  | a knight *nsubj*; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stout** | past | Your son *not said here* | a warrior |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | may | that | heaven |  |  |  | ye *nsubj*; well *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme |
| 4 | **begat** | past | ye | heaven |  |  |  | Quoth *obj* | 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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