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title: An I hear ye make further boast of seeking knights I shall owe ye sm… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: An I hear ye make further boast of seeking knights I shall owe ye small thanks. Who acts: I, ye, seeking knights. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 43

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An I hear ye make further boast of seeking knights I shall owe ye small thanks.

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**Who acts:** I, ye, seeking knights · **What happens:** hear, make, seek, owe, boast · **To what, where:** ye, further boast

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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, ye, seeking knights), 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:pg8447:2:43
# text = An I hear ye make further boast of seeking knights I shall owe ye small thanks.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obj	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	owe	owe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | I | ye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | further boast of seeking knights |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boast=Product |
| 3 | **seek** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **owe** | shall | I | ye |  |  |  | small thanks *obl* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ye=Theme |
| 5 | **boast** |  | seeking knights |  |  |  |  |  | nom boast «communication intransitive»: of=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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