--- title: There were ye ill-counselled; ye thought to bring him without his wi… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: There were ye ill-counselled; ye thought to bring him without his will, but the knight was not so feeble, he gave ye a blow that brake your collar-bone and thrust ye from your steed, feet upward, with little honour! Who acts: ye, knight, blow. 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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 (ye, knight, blow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:2:40 # text = There were ye ill-counselled; ye thought to bring him without his will, but the knight was not so feeble, he gave ye a blow that brake your collar-bone and thrust ye from your steed, feet upward, with little honour! 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 4 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 counselled counsell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 9 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 without without SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 feeble feeble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 27 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 iobj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 brake break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 33 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 thrust thrust NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 steed steed NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 44 upward upward ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | ye | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **counsell** | participle | ye *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | ye | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | | Perceval | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | | 5 | **not** **is** | past | the knight | | | | | feet *conj*; little honour *conj*; feeble, upward *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **give** | past | knight | a blow | ye | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient blow=Theme | | 7 | **break** | present | a blow | | | | | from your steed | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from steed=Co-Patient | | 8 | **bone** | | ye | | | | | your *nmod:poss*; thrust *conj* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/41/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/)