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title: Then must I fare through the land; and did I meet folk (though at fi… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then must I fare through the land; and did I meet folk (though at first I shamed me) whomsoever I met, whether pilgrim or merchant, did he bear goods or money with him, so did I deal with him that I won it for myself. Who acts: I, pilgrim. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into Engl
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 16

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Then must I fare through the land; and did I meet folk (though at first I shamed me) whomsoever I met, whether pilgrim or merchant, did he bear goods or money with him, so did I deal with him that I won it for myself.

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**Who acts:** I, pilgrim · **What happens:** fare, meet, shame, bear, deal, win · **To what, where:** land, folk, me, whomsoever, goods

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pilgrim), 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:pg8447:2:16
# text = Then must I fare through the land; and did I meet folk (though at first I shamed me) whomsoever I met, whether pilgrim or merchant, did he bear goods or money with him, so did I deal with him that I won it for myself.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fare	fare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	obl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	shamed	shame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
22	whomsoever	whomsoever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
27	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
31	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
34	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	33	obj	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fare** | must | I |  |  | the land | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | past · do-support | I | folk |  |  |  | whomsoever *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shame** | past | I | me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 4 | **meet** | past | I | whomsoever *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whomsoever=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **bear** | past · do-support | pilgrim or merchant | goods or money with poverty |  |  |  | poverty *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Patient |
| 6 | **deal** | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | with poverty | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with he=Theme |
| 7 | **win** | past | I | whomsoever |  |  |  | for myself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for myself=Beneficiary |

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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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