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title: And though I betook me to arms they profited me not a jot; his blows… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: And though I betook me to arms they profited me not a jot; his blows were so heavy, they weighed even as lead. Who acts: I, arms, blows, knight. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tr
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 20

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And though I betook me to arms they profited me not a jot; his blows were so heavy, they weighed even as lead.

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**Who acts:** I, arms, blows, knight · **What happens:** betake, not profit, be, weigh, blow · **To what, where:** me, lead

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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, arms, blows, knight), 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:pg8447:2:20
# text = And though I betook me to arms they profited me not a jot; his blows were so heavy, they weighed even as lead.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	betook	betake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	profited	profit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	jot	jot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **betake** | past | I | me |  |  |  | to arms | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **profit** | past | arms *= arm* |  | me |  |  | a jot *obl* | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** | past | knight's blows |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **weigh** | past | arms *= arm* | lead |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lead=Value |
| 5 | **blow** |  | knight |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=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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